Frank Zappa Quotes

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Speed will turn you into your parents. - Frank Zappa quote.
Speed will turn you into your parents.
— Frank Zappa

drugs

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa quote.
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
— Frank Zappa The Real Frank Zappa Book

politics

Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up. - Frank Zappa quote.
Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
— Frank Zappa
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa quote.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
— Frank Zappa
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods on earth. - Frank Zappa quote.
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods on earth.
— Frank Zappa The Baltimore Sun

music

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa quote.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
— Frank Zappa

stupidity

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. - Frank Zappa quote.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
— Frank Zappa
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa quote.
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
— Frank Zappa

journalism rock & roll

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa quote.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
— Frank Zappa The Real Frank Zappa Book

music time

It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work, and the other is nostalgia. - Frank Zappa quote.
It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work, and the other is nostalgia.
— Frank Zappa
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. - Frank Zappa quote.
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.
— Frank Zappa

parenting

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. - Frank Zappa quote.
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.
— Frank Zappa The Real Frank Zappa Book

stupidity