Frank Zappa – 13 Quotes

13 Quotes by Frank Zappa

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

– Frank Zappa

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

– Frank Zappa

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.

– Frank Zappa

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

– Frank Zappa

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

– Frank Zappa

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

– 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

Music is always a commentary on society.

– Frank Zappa

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

– Frank Zappa

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

– Frank Zappa

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

– Frank Zappa

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

– Frank Zappa

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

– Frank Zappa