Frank Zappa Quotes


30 Frank Zappa quotes:



"It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity"
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: Stupidity Quotes
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: Scientists Quotes
"The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: Music Quotes
"Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not"
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: Ignorance Quotes
"Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny"
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: Funny Quotes
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: Existence Quotes Virtue Quotes
"I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a "temporary license to exist" - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesn't own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the "pursuit" is in progress."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: Destiny Quotes
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes Progress Quotes
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"Without deviation progress is not possible."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: Computers Quotes American Musician Quotes
"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes Stupidity Quotes
"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."
Author: Zappa Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes



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