Frank Zappa
Quotes by Frank Zappa
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
— Frank Zappa
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
— Frank Zappa
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
— Frank Zappa
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
— Frank Zappa
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
— Frank Zappa
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
— 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
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
— 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
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
— Frank Zappa
Music is always a commentary on society.
— Frank Zappa
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
— Frank Zappa
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
— Frank Zappa