I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. - Frank Zappa
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny. - Frank Zappa
A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want. - Frank Zappa
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. - Frank Zappa
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. - Frank Zappa
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. - Frank Zappa
Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system. - Frank Zappa
If we were the Monkees, we'd be ready by now. - Frank Zappa
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. - Frank Zappa
There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. - Frank Zappa
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. - Frank Zappa
behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government. - Frank Zappa
Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins? - 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
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
In the fight between you and the world, back the world. - Frank Zappa
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library. - Frank Zappa
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. - Frank Zappa
Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. - Frank Zappa
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa
There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa
I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right. - Frank Zappa
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. - Frank Zappa
Information is not knowledge.Knowledge is not wisdom.Wisdom is not truth.Truth is not beauty.Beauty is not love.Love is not music.Music is THE BEST. - Frank Zappa
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. - Frank Zappa
Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not. - Frank Zappa
I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy. - 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
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa
So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. - Frank Zappa
The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get. - Frank Zappa
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 never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. - Frank Zappa
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?': 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table? - Frank Zappa
I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out. - Frank Zappa