Music Quotes by Frank Zappa

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

— Frank Zappa

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

— Frank Zappa

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

— Frank Zappa

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

— Frank Zappa

Music is always a commentary on society.

— Frank Zappa

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

— Frank Zappa

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

— Frank Zappa

There isn't anything weird about my music.

— Frank Zappa

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

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

— Frank Zappa

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

— Frank Zappa

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

— Frank Zappa

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

— Frank Zappa

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

— Frank Zappa

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

— Frank Zappa

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

— Frank Zappa

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or…

— Frank Zappa

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

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes…

— Frank Zappa

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

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all…

— Frank Zappa

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

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

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

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

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which…

— Frank Zappa

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

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

Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is,…

— Frank Zappa

This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

— Frank Zappa

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state

— Frank Zappa

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

— Frank Zappa

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

— Frank Zappa

“Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it".”

— Frank Zappa

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

— Frank Zappa

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

— Frank Zappa

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

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

— Frank Zappa

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

“For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was…

— Frank Zappa