If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state — 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
Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air. — 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
The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on. — 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
“Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it".” — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano! — 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
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
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 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
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
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
I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now.… — 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
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
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
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 rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — 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 pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it… — 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
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
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
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. — 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
