Frank Zappa Quotes

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
-Frank Zappa in Communism quotes.

"It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity."
-Frank Zappa

"The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own."
-Frank Zappa

"Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
-Frank Zappa

"I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy."
-Frank Zappa

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
-Frank Zappa in Society quotes.

"If we were the Monkees, we'd be ready by now."
-Frank Zappa

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."
-Frank Zappa in Journalism quotes.

"The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work."
-Frank Zappa

"Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not."
-Frank Zappa

"There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life."
-Frank Zappa

"Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system."
-Frank Zappa

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
-Frank Zappa

"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
-Frank Zappa

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
-Frank Zappa

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
-Frank Zappa

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
-Frank Zappa in America quotes.

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library."
-Frank Zappa

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
-Frank Zappa