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.”

“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.”

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

“Without deviation progress is not possible.”

“Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?”

“Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.”

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

“So many books, so little time.”

“Music is always a commentary on society.”

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

“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”

“behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.”