dr_shoganai

"Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom, Wisdom is not truth, Truth is not beauty, Beauty is not love, Love is not music and Music is THE BEST."
-- Frank Zappa (Joe's Garage, 1979)

"I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin' - there's more of us ugly motherfuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch out".
-- Frank Zappa (Tinseltown Rebellion, 1981)

"Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?" Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?""
-- Frank Zappa

"Nuclear explosions under the Nevada desert? What the fuck are we testing for? We already know the shit blows up."
-- Frank Zappa

"Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them in the ass."
-- Frank Zappa

"Jazz is not dead...it just smells funny."
-- Frank Zappa

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
-- Frank Zappa

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
-- Frank Zappa

Hey, you know something people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white.
- -Frank Zappa

There is no hell. There is only France.
- -Frank Zappa

To me, absurdity is the only reality.
-- Frank Zappa

If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
-- Frank Zappa

May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
-- Frank Zappa

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
-- Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.
-- Frank Zappa

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.
-- 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

The mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work if it's not open.
-- Frank Zappa

If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.
-- Frank Zappa

You drank beer, you played golf, you watched football - WE EVOLVED!
-- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
-- Frank Zappa

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
-- Frank Zappa















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