Frank Zappa Quotes
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Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
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If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.
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The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.
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Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
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Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
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Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.
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On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.
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I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.
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You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.
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The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.
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I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.
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The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.
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. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.
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I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set!
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Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught! I understand in the case of Mr. Swaggart, that he claims that it was not multiple encounters with many prostitutes - apparently, only one sweet young thing. And he did tell Cal Thomas of the Moral Majority that the sex act itself was not fully consumated. However he did admit to doing something por-no-graphic with the girl. Let's use our imaginations, ladies and gentlemen.
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The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the guy next door, you're a criminal, and you ought to be punished for that especially if you're in a position where your actions could affect large numbers of people. Being a doctor, a legislator, a judge, an airline pilot, where somebody's life depends on you.
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I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.
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If you are home, and you got no place to go, and you want to, just blow yourself up ... Go ahead ... The drugs themselves ... There's a price for doing stuff to yourself.
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All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.
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The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus.
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Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?
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The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity
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My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.
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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
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The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.
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Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.
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These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.
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Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.
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