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25 Mind-Blowing Quotes By Frank Zappa

Famous As: One of the Most Innovative and Stylistically Diverse Musicians of His Generation
Born On: December 21, 1940
Died On: December 4, 1993
Born In: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Died At Age: 52
Frank Vincent Zappa was an illustrious American composer, filmmaker, musician and activist whose thoughts, compositions and works were characterised by sound experiments, nonconformity, satire of American culture, free-form improvisation and musical virtuosity. His career spanned over three decades and he composed orchestral, musique concrete, rock, jazz, pop, jazz fusion etc. He released more than sixty albums as a solo artist and also along with his band ‘The Mothers Of Invention’. Undoubtedly he is one of the most unconventional and distinctive rock musicians of his era. Due to the diverse musical influences that he had, Zappa created music that was tough to be categorised. Following is a collection of quotations and sayings by Frank Vincent Zappa which have been excerpted from his writings, songs, lyrics, movies, dialogues, thoughts, work and life. Presenting insightful quotes and thoughts by Frank Vincent Zappa.
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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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

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

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

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

Frank Vincent Zappa
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Frank Vincent Zappa
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.

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 Vincent Zappa
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Frank Vincent Zappa
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

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 Vincent Zappa
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Vincent Zappa
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Frank Vincent Zappa
Music is always a commentary on society.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Frank Vincent Zappa
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Frank Vincent Zappa
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Vincent 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.

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 Vincent 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.

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

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

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

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

Frank Vincent Zappa
Without deviation progress is not possible.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

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

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

Frank Vincent 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.

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 Vincent Zappa

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 Vincent Zappa