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
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
“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
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
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
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state — 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
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 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
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 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
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
Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with… — 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
Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin'… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The thing about drugs is this ... the Libertarians kind of have the right idea on this: Basically, their theory is that… — 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
I mean, if you want to hurt yourself, go ahead. It's like, if you want to jack off, go ahead, just don't… — 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
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
