Frank Zappa Quotes

Without deviation, progress is not possible.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Information is not knowledge.

So many books, so little time.

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it’s not open.

Music is the best!

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it’s going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny.

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

The most important thing in art is uniqueness of vision. If you don’t have that, you basically don’t have anything.

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

The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

I was patented in 1955.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be fascinating.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Information is not knowledge.

Without deviation, progress is not possible.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Without deviation, progress is not possible.

Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny.

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Music is always a commentary on society.

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

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 television telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

There is no hell, there is only France.

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