Frank Zappa Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

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

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”

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

“Without deviation progress is not possible.”

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

“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.”

“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”