All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.” — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and… — 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
Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“I think that any artistic decision that is based on whether or not you are going to make money it is not… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes. — 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
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically. — 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
