Frank Zappa Quotes

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

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

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.

There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I'm the best you can get... have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set.

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

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.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

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.

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

One and one is eleven.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.

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

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

It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?