Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 12

Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole?

Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that.

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.

I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well, 99 percent of on the songs on the radio deal with the topic of love and we use the term loosely. So, kids have heard love, love, love, love ... the minute they turn on the radio. Do you see any kids doing love? I see them doing crack ... but not love. So, it's bullshit!

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

He likes to flirt with all the boys in the class.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

You're baloney without the mayo.

Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?

She is an office girl, her name is Betty. Her favorite group is Helen Reddy.

Unbind your mind, there is no time.

I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?

Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.

Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.

Wisdom is not the domain of the Wiz.

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.

People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble.

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.

I want a horny little Jewish princess.