Frank Zappa Quotes

"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."

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

"The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life."

"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."


"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."

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

"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over."

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