If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state — 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
I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If you are home, and you got no place to go, and you want to, just blow yourself up ... Go ahead… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass.… — 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
Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Asked random questions about the First Amendment and how they would like to have it applied, if you believe in polls at… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all… — 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
“I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
There's a price you pay for drinking too much, for eating too much sugar, smoking too much marijuana, using too much cocaine,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're… — 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
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 establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based… — 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
Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts,… — 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
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
Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat? — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and… — 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