Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 7

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

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?

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

Ram it up your poop chute.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.

Don't forget to vote.

Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I like it. Hear those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along with. I like those notes very, very much. Give me a beat. Not a fancy one. Give me a GOOD BEAT -- something I can dance to. It has to go boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will hate it very, very much. Also, I want it right away -- and then, write me some more songs like that -- over and over and over again, because I'm really into music.

One size does not fit all.

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.

If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap

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.

Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.