“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
— Frank Zappa
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”
“So many books, so little time.”
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.”
“Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”
“The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.”
“It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
“Don’t forget to vote.”
“One size does not fit all.”
“Don’t eat the yellow snow.”
“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.”
“Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.”
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”
“I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don’t.”
“Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.”
“Shut Up and Play your Guitar.”
“Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don’t ever go.”
“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.”
“Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.”
“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
“Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.”
“Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.”
“It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.”
“To me absurdity is the only reality.”
“Ram it up your poop chute.”
“The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity.”
“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
“I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.”
“A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.”
“The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn’t, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that’s a bonus.”
“The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.”
“I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.”
“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”
“Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”
“I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.”
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
“The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that’s my idea of a good time.”
“The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.”
“I’m probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.”
“There is no hell. There is only France.”
“If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.”
“This is a stupid song and that’s the way I like it.”
“Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up.”
“Maybe you should stay with your mama, you’re kind of stupid and ugly, too.”
“There will never be a nuclear war; there’s too much real estate involved.”
“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.”
“Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.”
“Drugs will turn you into your parents.”
“I think that if you use the so-called “strong words” you’ll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.”
“Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.”
“Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them.”
“The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!”
“Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn’t work.”
“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively – because without this humble appliance, you can’t know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.”
“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.”
“Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.”
“Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?”
“I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don’t, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all seasons.”
“The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.”
“The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.”
“Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.”
“Information doesn’t kill you.”
“I think that if a person doesn’t feel cynical then they’re out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization – you can’t just swallow it whole.”
“The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.”
“Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let’s get on with it, so long as it doesn’t cause a murder.”
“You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain’t what you’re not. So see what you got?”
“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.”
“I ain’t the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don’t change those evil ways, I’m gonna make her bleed.”
“Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.”
“Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.”
“Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.”
“Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?”
“I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.”
“Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There’s a world, you see which has people in it who believe a variety of different things.”
“The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay.”
“I’m the devil’s advocate. We have our own worshipers.”
“My balls feel like a pair of maracas.”
“She is an office girl, her name is Betty. Her favorite group is Helen Reddy.”
“Do your job and do it right, life’s a ball, TV tonight.”
“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on.”
“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.”
“Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.”
“Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?”
“Definition of rock journalism: People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read.”
“Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”
“I’m more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.”
“Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.”
“My school spirit is at an all time low, I’m losing my status at the school.”
“If we can’t be free at least we can be cheap.”
“Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it’s the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.”
“Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.”
“I want a steamy little Jewish Princess with over-worked gums, who squeaks when she cums. I don’t want no troll, I just want a Yemenite hole.”
“My guitar wants to kill your mama.”
We're on a mission of turning inspiring quotes into beautiful wallpapers. Start your week with a motivational kick. Don't miss out on our next weekly batch.
Join 48,000+ other people and subscribe to Quotefancy Weekly Digest.
