Quotes by
Frank Zappa |
1940-1993 , American musician
Singer-songwriter, musician, activist, and filmmaker. His work was characterized by nonconformity, improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse musicians of his era.
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Quotations
| • | Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. 17 |
| • | Broken hearts are for assholes. (song title from the album “Sheik Yerbouti”, 1977) 11 |
| • | Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read. 8 |
| • | Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. 7 |
| • | A true Zen saying: “Nothing is what I want.” 6 |
| • | Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. 6 |
| • | To me, absurdity is the only reality. 6 |
| • | I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. 4 |
| • | Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. 4 |
| • | You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer. 4 |
| • | So many books, so little time. |
| • | If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you DESERVE IT. |
| • | If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. |
| • | Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love.
Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. |
| • | Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny. |
| • | Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. |
| • | There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. |
| • | A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole. |
| • | It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret. |
| • | My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. |
| • | Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. |
| • | There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. |
| • | The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced. |
| • | Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins? |
| • | Tobacco is my favorite vegetable. |
| • | Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. |
| • | Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. |
| • | The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house. |
| • | The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. |
| • | Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages. |
| • | Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. |
| • | The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property. |
