Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air. — 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
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
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 music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. — 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 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
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
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
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
Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all… — 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
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones… — 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