18 Quotes By Frank Zappa


Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa on art

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa on change

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank Zappa on change

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa on design

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa on education

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa on good

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa on love

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa on music

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa on music

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa on music

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank Zappa on music

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa on music

Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa on music

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa on politics

Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa on society

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa on time

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa on work

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa on change