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Frank Zappa (Musician)

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
— Frank Zappa ignorance
There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.
— Frank Zappa life
The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced.
— Frank Zappa random
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. Theres a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
— Frank Zappa people
There will be no nuclear war. Theres too much real estate involved.
— Frank Zappa war
You cant 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.
— Frank Zappa you
It isnt necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or icethere are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
— Frank Zappa work
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
— Frank Zappa life
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something wed all love one another.
— Frank Zappa love
Music is always a commentary on society.
— Frank Zappa music
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
— Frank Zappa progress
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change peoples minds.
— Frank Zappa change
Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk
— Frank Zappa people
Rock journalism is people who cant write interviewing people who cant talk for people who cant read
— Frank Zappa people
Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny
— Frank Zappa funny
The computer cant tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but whats missing is the eyebrows.
— Frank Zappa sin
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
— Frank Zappa music
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 change
Without deviation progress is not possible.
— Frank Zappa progress
You cant 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.
— Frank Zappa time
You cant 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.
— Frank Zappa you
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
— Frank Zappa music
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
— Frank Zappa music
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
— Frank Zappa art
Communism doesnt work because people like to own stuff.
— Frank Zappa people
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
— Frank Zappa believe
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
— Frank Zappa people
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
— Frank Zappa education
It isnt necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
— Frank Zappa work
Most people wouldnt know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
— Frank Zappa music
Most rock journalism is people who cant write, interviewing people who cant talk, for people who cant read.
— Frank Zappa people
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state
— Frank Zappa art
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
— Frank Zappa universe
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity.
— Frank Zappa night
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid
— Frank Zappa time
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
— Frank Zappa men
The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie -its consumed that way without any regard for how and why its made.
— Frank Zappa life
I searched for years I found no love. Im sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
— Frank Zappa love
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesnt own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the pursuit is in progress.
— Frank Zappa change
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
— Frank Zappa politics

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