524 Quotes by Frank Zappa

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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

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

No, I don't think people really give a shit about that (meeting one's maker) unless they're completely bamboozled by religious superstition - to live your life in planning for this good time you're going to have in the sky

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a "temporary license to exist" - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesn't own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the "pursuit" is in progress.

Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny

Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true.

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.