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“The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you… and then, the worse things get.”

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

Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)

“The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.”

Frank Zappa

Interview on London Plus (24 September 1984) - YouTube video http://youtube.com/watch?v=CR2N040drg0

“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”

Frank Zappa

Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 162.

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

Frank Zappa

“Drugs will turn you into your parents.”

Frank Zappa

“Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.”

Frank Zappa

“A wise man once said, "never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment."”

Frank Zappa

Interview with Grace Slick on Rockplace (11 February 1984).

“Don't eat the yellow snow.”

Frank Zappa

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

Frank Zappa

“If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.”

Frank Zappa

To tourists at the Whisky-a-Go-Go, Los Angeles CA, December 1965
Liner notes for the album Freak Out! (27 June 1966).

“A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.”

Frank Zappa

“The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.”

Frank Zappa

"Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa", in MOJO magazine (October 1993).

“I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news… if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.”

Frank Zappa

Appearance on Thicke of the Night (28 April 1984).

“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.”

Frank Zappa

In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987).

“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.”

Frank Zappa

Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 239; this may be derived from a similar observation by Harlan Ellison which is sometimes misattributed to Zappa: "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."