Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it. — 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
The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is… — 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
Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which… — 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 Image
Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. — 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 people in… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Give me the enchilada with the pickle sauce shoved up between the donkey's ass. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image