Top 280 Frank Zappa Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

3. “So many books, so little time.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

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5. “Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”

— Frank Zappa

6. “The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

8. “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

— Frank Zappa

9. “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.”

— Frank Zappa

10. “Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”

— Frank Zappa

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11. “One size does not fit all.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

13. “It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”

— Frank Zappa

14. “Don’t eat the yellow snow.”

— Frank Zappa

15. “Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

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17. “Don’t forget to vote.”

— Frank Zappa

18. “I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don’t.”

— Frank Zappa

19. “It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.”

— Frank Zappa

20. “The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else’s life.”

— Frank Zappa

21. “There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.”

— Frank Zappa

22. “Shut Up and Play your Guitar.”

— Frank Zappa

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23. “Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.”

— Frank Zappa

24. “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.”

— Frank Zappa

25. “I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.”

— Frank Zappa

26. “The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity.”

— Frank Zappa

27. “Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.”

— Frank Zappa

28. “To me absurdity is the only reality.”

— Frank Zappa

29. “Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.”

— Frank Zappa

30. “There is no hell. There is only France.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

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32. “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”

— Frank Zappa

33. “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.”

— Frank Zappa

34. “Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

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36. “Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don’t ever go.”

— Frank Zappa

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37. “I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.”

— Frank Zappa

38. “I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.”

— Frank Zappa

39. “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.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

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41. “Ram it up your poop chute.”

— Frank Zappa

42. “The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.”

— Frank Zappa

43. “A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.”

— Frank Zappa

44. “Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”

— Frank Zappa

45. “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.”

— Frank Zappa

46. “The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that’s my idea of a good time.”

— Frank Zappa

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47. “I’m probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

49. “Drugs will turn you into your parents.”

— Frank Zappa

50. “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.”

— Frank Zappa

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