Quotes by Frank Zappa

• 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.
• The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
• There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
• There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
• Without deviation progress is not possible.
• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
• Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
• 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.
• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
• 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.
• I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
• A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
• Art is making something out of nothing and selling 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.
• I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
• One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
• 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.
• Music is always a commentary on society.
• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
• Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
• A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work unless it's open
• A mind is like a parachute; it doesn't work if it's not open.
• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open.
• So many books, so little time
• So many books, so little time.
• A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open.
• A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
• A mind is like a parachute: it doesn't work if it's not open
• A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it's not open.
• A mind is like a parachute; it doesn't work if it isn't open.
• Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
• A mind is like a parachute; it doesn't work if it is not open.
• The mind is like a parachute, it works only when it is open.
• A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open
• Your brain is like a parachute—it works best when it's open.
• Success is like a fart; it only bothers people when it's supposed to be silent.
• Your mind is like a parachute: it works best when it’s open!