Frank Zappa Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Frank Zappa quotes, Frank Zappa sayings, and Frank Zappa proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. Frank Zappa
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa
I never set out to be weird. It was always the other people who called me weird. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
There's 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
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. Frank Zappa
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. Frank Zappa
Some people. Some people like cupcakes exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of god's grey earth as that prince of foods. the muffin! Frank Zappa
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. Frank Zappa
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny. Frank Zappa
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. Frank Zappa
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. Frank Zappa
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. Frank Zappa
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. Frank Zappa
A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time. Frank Zappa
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. Frank Zappa
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. Frank Zappa
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. Frank Zappa
Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on. Frank Zappa
Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous. Frank Zappa
A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. Frank Zappa
Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Frank Zappa
Organized religions by their very natures are misleading. Frank Zappa
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Frank Zappa
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance space is sculpted into something. Frank Zappa
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa
A drug is neither moral or immoral—it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an a**hole. Frank Zappa