66 result(s) for Frank Zappa Quotes.
"The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
"It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret."
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence."
"It’s not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."
"The mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open."
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"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny."
"Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass."
"Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex."
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
"Do you want to make easy money? Then just count the chromosomes."
"I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own religion - we've built our own way of doing things."
"I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man."
"The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting, literally. For other arts, figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins."
"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
"I have a feeling I'm going to wake up someday and say 'I can't do this anymore.'"
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
"A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole."
"If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it."
"Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny."
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"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
"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."
"The mainstream comes to you, but you have to go to the underground."
"A working knowledge of other music can only make a musician’s music richer."
"Music is always a commentary on society."
"The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.'"
"There is no hell. There is only France."
"There are only three things that America will be known for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. They're the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created."
"Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination."
"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."
"In my mind, I'm the guy who has to build the sled and get the dogs together and all of that. But then when I sit down and start doing that, what comes out is what you hear in my music."
"The presidency is not merely an administrative office. That's the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified."
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture."
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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny."
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another."
"The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins."
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
"Do we have to listen to this again? It's too commercial."
"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping."
"Do something only if you want to do it; never because you have to do it."
"The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that."
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
"So many books, so little time."
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST."
"There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish."
"The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating grass for the rest of your life."
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."
"The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons, and 85% morons."
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
"Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny."
"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
"The present day composer refuses to die."
"Your mind is like a parachute; it works best when it's open."
"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow."
"Civilization is despicable."
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
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