Song Quotes by Frank Zappa

Nobody gives a crap if we're great 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

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

— Frank Zappa

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

— Frank Zappa

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

— Frank Zappa

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.

— Frank Zappa

I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have…

— 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

I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who…

— Frank Zappa

“Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.”

— 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

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

— 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

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

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a…

— Frank Zappa

Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your…

— Frank Zappa

Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why…

— Frank Zappa

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

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

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

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

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

— Frank Zappa

“I think that any artistic decision that is based on whether or not you are going to make money it is not…

— Frank Zappa

Watch out where the Huskies go And don't you eat that yellow snow

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

— Frank Zappa

There isn't anything weird about my music.

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

— Frank Zappa

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

— Frank Zappa

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit…

— Frank Zappa

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

— Frank Zappa

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

— 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

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

— Frank Zappa