Frank Zappa Quotes

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

(When asked to create an anti-drug abuse slogan): "Speed will turn you into your parents."

Religion has mostly proven to be a real-estate scam. (late 1980s)

Some rock musicians make a bunch of money and stick it up their noses - I stick mine in my ear

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

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Rock journalism is people who can`t write, preparing stories based on interviews with people who can`t talk, in order to amuse people who can`t read.

It is probably more natural to perform sex with a sea urchin than to be interviewed.

Rock journalism is people who can`t write interviewing people who can`t talk for people who can`t read.

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.

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

Work is the only reason I leave home. I`m not a tourist. I don`t travel for pleasure. I don`t take vacations. I only leave the house when I have something to do

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

Watch out where the huskies go, don`t you eat that yellow snow.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

During an appearance in 1986 on CNN`s Crossfire: The biggest threat to America today is not Communism. It`s the turning of this country into a Fascist Theocracy and everything that`s happened during the Reagan Administration has put us right down that pipe!

My dad was employed as a meteorologist at the Edgewood Arsenal. They made poison gas there during World War II, so I guess it would have been the meteorologist`s job to figure out which way the wind was blowing when it was time to shoot the stuff off.

(Explaining why he felt Communism was doomed to fail) "People like to own things."

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.

I`ve smoked ten marijuana cigarettes in my life. And they`ve given me a sore throat, a headache, and made me sleepy. I can`t understand why anyone would wanna use the stuff. It seems such an impractical pastime as you can get sent to jail for it

Communism doesn`t work because people like to own stuff.

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

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.

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