Frank Zappa: Trending quotes (page 4)

“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.”

“Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.”

“The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.”

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

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

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

“Drugs will turn you into your parents.”

“Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.”

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

“Don't eat the yellow snow.”

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

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

“I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.”