Zappa Quotes




The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

He was in a quandary...being devoured by the swirling cesspool of his own steaming desires... uh.. the guy was a wreck

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

Nothing but the best for my dog.

THE VERY BIG STUPID is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D Department.

You drank beer, you played golf, you watched football - WE EVOLVED!

I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.

Information doesn't kill you...
-Senate Hearing on "Porn Rock", 1985 during an exchange with a Born Again Christian.

For my taste, these solos (of some 50s blues guitarists) are exemplary because what is being played seems honest and, in a musical way, a direct extension of the personality of the men who played them.

It's not pretty, also you can't dance to it.

It looks just like a Telefunken U-47!

Jazz is not dead...it just smells funny.

Where ever you're going, don't walk the first. If you do, people will think you know where you're going.

You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. Who are the brain police?

I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

A prune isn't really a vegetable...
CABBAGE is a vegetable...

I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow...

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

I was writing all kinds of positive and negative canons and weird inverted this and retrograde that and getting as spaced-out mathematically as I could and I was going "Wait a minute (laughs), who cares about that stuff?" I had always liked rhythm and blues so here I was stuck between the slide rule and the gut bucket somewhere and I decided that I would opt for a third road someplace in between.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work if it not open.

When we talk about artistic freedom in this country We sometime lose sight of the fact that freedom is often dependent on adequate financing.

% Here I stand hoping against hope that it's a chick with a low voice -- At a concert in Beloit, Wisconsin 1968 or 69 a guy in the audience yelled out, "Eat me Zappa".

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

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

On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standars of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express CREATIVELY his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.

I figure the odds be fifty-fifty I just might have some thing to say.

The worst aspect of `typical familyism' (as media-merchandised) is that it glorifies _involuntary_homogenization_.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules,often with the assistence of unsuspecting musicians.

There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved.

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of OUR NATIONAL STUPIDITY.

And all the rest of whom for which to whensonever of partially indeterminate bio-chemical degredation. Seek the path to the sudsy yellow nozzle of their foaming nocturnal parametric digital whole-wheat inter-faith geo-thermal terpsichorean ejectamenta.

The manner in which Americans "consume" music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie -- it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it was made.

Nuclear explosions under the Nevada desert?
What the fuck are we testing for?
We already know the shit blows up.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages

Thanks to our schools and political leadership, the U.S. has acquired an international reputation as the home of 250 million people dumb enough to buy 'The Wacky Wall-Walker.'

Now imagine a Moebius vortex inside a spherical constant, and you've got my cosmology.

Shoot low, they're riding Shetlands

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just keep your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.

Stupidity has a certain charm -- ignorance does not.

In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has -- to put it mildly -- a fatal design flaw.

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.

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.

Nobody looks good in brown lipstick

Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.

If it sounds GOOD to YOU, it's bitchen; and if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty.

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

``Conducting'' is when you draw ``designs'' in the nowhere -- with your stick, or with your hands -- which are interpreted as ``instructional messages'' by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

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

People who think of videos as an art form are probably the same people who think Cabbage Patch Dolls are a revolutionary form of soft sculpture.

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

Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a cheque.


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