A biography for Frank Zappahasn’t been written yet.
“בשבילי, חוסר ההיגיון היא המציאות היחידה.”
“זה אבסורדי לקחת משהו ממש ברצינות.”
“לך לספרייה ולמד את עצמך.”
“אף פעם אל תעצור עד שהטוב שלך הופך טוב יותר, והטוב יותר שלך הופך לטוב ביותר.”
“הראש הוא כמו מצנח... הוא לא עובד אם לא פותחים אותו.”
“תבנה את החלומות שלך בעצמך, אחרת מישהו אחר ישכור אותך כדי שתבנה את החלומות שלו.”
“ילד הוא בן־אדם. זה שהוא קצת יותר נמוך, לא אומר שהוא יותר טיפש ממך.”
“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”
“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
“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.”
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
“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.”
“There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
“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.”
“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
“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.”
“I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.”
“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.”