524 Quotes by Frank Zappa

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

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

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.

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.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

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

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

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

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.