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“There is no hell. There is only France.”

"Church Chat" - Lyrics http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/You_Can't_Do_That_On_Stage_Anymore_Vol_4.html#Church <br class="br">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore (1991)

“You say your life's a bum deal 'n yer up against the wall. Well, people, you ain't even got no deal at all. 'Cause what they do in Washington. They just takes care of Number One. An' Number One ain't you. You ain't even Number Two!”

Frank Zappa

"The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing"
You Are What You Is (1981)

“Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.”

Frank Zappa

Beauty Knows No Pain.
You Are What You Is (1981)

“Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow.”

Frank Zappa

"Don't Eat The Yellow Snow".
Apostrophe (') (1974)

“After all, he wrote this book here, and in the book it says he made us all to be just like him! So if we're dumb, then God is dumb — and maybe even a little ugly on the side.”

Frank Zappa

Dumb All Over.
You Are What You Is (1981)

“There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!”

Frank Zappa

"Jumbo Go Away".
You Are What You Is (1981)

“You're an asshole! You're an asshole!
That's right!
You're an asshole! You're an asshole!
Yes yes!”

Frank Zappa

"Broken Hearts are for Assholes"
"Sheik Yerbouti" (1979)
Variant: You're an asshole, You're an asshole, that's right! You're an asshole, You're an asshole, yes yes!

“My solos are speech-influenced rhythmically; and harmonically, they're either pentatonic, or poly-scale oriented. And there's the mixolydian mode that I also use a lot…But I'm more interested in melodic things I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.”

Frank Zappa

As quoted in The Guitar Handbook (2002) by Ralph Denyer, p. 102

“On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.”

Frank Zappa

Liner notes for the album Freak Out! (27 June 1966).

“Do you think you are protecting somebody by taking away seven words?”

Frank Zappa

Crossfire debate on censorship (1986)

“You know, people are basically shitty. It’s when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.”

Frank Zappa

Oui interview (1979)

“So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there’s no way you’re gonna find out what it means.”

Frank Zappa

Oui interview (1979)

“I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously … I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.”

Frank Zappa

As quoted in No Commercial Potential : The Saga of Frank Zappa (1972) by David Walley, p. 4.

“I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it’s much better musically than much of what’s available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content. One good believable song about some guy’s girlfriend and how they broke up — a sincere one — is better than twenty albums of English rock that’s ever been produced.”

Frank Zappa

Oui interview (1979)

“The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic … in terms of music history.”

Frank Zappa

Interview (5 March 1969) http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/t-z, broadcast on Pop Chronicles, Show 14 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Phil Spector & Frank Zappa review the '50s http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19763/m1/

“It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice — there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.”

Frank Zappa

Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 203.

“I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.”

Frank Zappa

Interview on Nationwide (1 July 1983).

“Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?”

Frank Zappa

Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto (May 1969).

“Gail has said in interviews that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other.”

Frank Zappa

The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)