“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
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore (1991)
"The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing"
You Are What You Is (1981)
“Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.”
Beauty Knows No Pain.
You Are What You Is (1981)
“Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow.”
"Don't Eat The Yellow Snow".
Apostrophe (') (1974)
“There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!”
"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!”
"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!
As quoted in The Guitar Handbook (2002) by Ralph Denyer, p. 102
Liner notes for the album Freak Out! (27 June 1966).
“Do you think you are protecting somebody by taking away seven words?”
Crossfire debate on censorship (1986)
As quoted in No Commercial Potential : The Saga of Frank Zappa (1972) by David Walley, p. 4.
Oui interview (1979)
“The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic … in terms of music history.”
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/
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.”
Interview on Nationwide (1 July 1983).
Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto (May 1969).