Frank Zappa Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. 
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 

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 

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