I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see which has… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“I think that if you use the so-called "strong words" you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It's fairly obvious, since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
People call me for interviews on censorship type topics all the time, like that Gannette interview.I don't hold myself out to be… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. — Frank Zappa Copy Share
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay. — Frank Zappa Copy Share
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. — Frank Zappa Copy Share
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see which has people in… — Frank Zappa Copy Share
Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous. — Frank Zappa Copy Share
Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass. — Frank Zappa Copy Share
Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure? — Frank Zappa Copy Share
