Frank Zappa citations

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“Le journalisme de rock, ce sont des gens incapables d’écrire, interviewant des gens incapables de parler, afin de produire des articles pour des gens incapables de lire.”

“L'information n'est pas la connaissance. La connaissance n'est pas la sagesse. La sagesse n'est pas la vérité. La vérité n'est pas la beauté. La beauté n'est pas l'amour. L'amour n'est pas la musique. La musique est la meilleure des choses.”

“Le jazz n’est pas mort, c’est juste qu’il a une drôle d’odeur.”

“Hey, vous savez quoi? Je ne suis pas noir, mais bien souvent, j'aimerais pouvoir dire que je ne suis pas blanc!”

“La drogue n'est pas mauvaise. La drogue est un composé chimique. Le problème survient lorsque les gens prennent de la drogue et s'en servent comme une permission à se conduire comme des trous du cul.”

“Ne soyons pas trop sévères avec notre propre ignorance. C'est ce qui fait la grandeur de l'Amérique!”

“Tant de livres, si peu de temps.”

“Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Drugs will turn you into your parents.”

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

“Don't eat the yellow snow.”

“Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.”

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

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

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

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

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

“Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”