Top 25 Quotes by Frank Zappa

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

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.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.