Top 280 Frank Zappa Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I’m gonna take my life.”

— Frank Zappa

152. “Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.”

— Frank Zappa

153. “Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

— Frank Zappa

154. “Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport.”

— Frank Zappa

155. “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.”

— Frank Zappa

156. “Nothing I’ve ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.”

— Frank Zappa

157. “The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.”

— Frank Zappa

158. “Wisdom is not the domain of the Wiz.”

— Frank Zappa

159. “In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.”

— Frank Zappa

160. “Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.”

— Frank Zappa

161. “Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.”

— Frank Zappa

162. “He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.”

— Frank Zappa

163. “You’ve got to be digging it while it’s happening ’cause it just might be a one shot deal.”

— Frank Zappa

164. “Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.”

— Frank Zappa

165. “Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it’s your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you’re really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.”

— Frank Zappa

166. “Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches.”

— Frank Zappa

167. “Sit and spin ’til you rot on the cosmic utensil.”

— Frank Zappa

168. “Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.”

— Frank Zappa

169. “I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone’s teeth get cleaner?”

— Frank Zappa

170. “The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business.”

— Frank Zappa

171. “Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I’m much too young and stupid to operate a gun.”

— Frank Zappa

172. “I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.”

— Frank Zappa

173. “You can’t escape the puking sphinx.”

— Frank Zappa

174. “I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.”

— Frank Zappa

175. “Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear.”

— Frank Zappa

176. “If lyrics make people do things, how come we don’t love each other?”

— Frank Zappa

177. “I want a hairy little Jewish Princess with a brand new nose, who knows where it goes.”

— Frank Zappa

178. “A composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.”

— Frank Zappa

179. “I detest ‘love lyrics.’ I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on ’love lyrics.”

— Frank Zappa

180. “Brown shoes don’t make it.”

— Frank Zappa

181. “I’m not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.”

— Frank Zappa

182. “All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control.”

— Frank Zappa

183. “America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.”

— Frank Zappa

184. “Socialism produces bad music, bad art, social stagnation and really unhappy people.”

— Frank Zappa

185. “Wowie zowie, love me do. Wowie zowie, and I’ll love you, too.”

— Frank Zappa

186. “A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”

— Frank Zappa

187. “This here song might offend some, if it does it’s because your dumb.”

— Frank Zappa

188. “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity.”

— Frank Zappa

189. “Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing’s worse than a suicide chump.”

— Frank Zappa

190. “I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.”

— Frank Zappa

191. “I don’t want to see any religious people in public office because they’re working for another boss.”

— Frank Zappa

192. “Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It’s two steps removed from the Inquisition.”

— Frank Zappa

193. “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer.”

— Frank Zappa

194. “Music without the ebb and flow would be like “watching a film with only good guys in it”.”

— Frank Zappa

195. “Well Mike, I’m abnormal.”

— Frank Zappa

196. “Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.”

— Frank Zappa

197. “Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today’s pop culture, musically and sociologically.”

— Frank Zappa

198. “It’s a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.”

— Frank Zappa

199. “The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.”

— Frank Zappa