Frank Zappa Quotes

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.

behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

The Good Book says: "It's gotta be that way!" But their book says: "REVENGE THE CRUSADES!!!!... After all, he wrote this book here, and in the book it says he made us all to be just like him! So if we're dumb, then God is dumb — and maybe even a little ugly on the side.

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

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra, as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

Progress demands deviation from the norm.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.