Quotes by Frank Zappa

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

“Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not”

“The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own”

“Communism doesnt work because people like to own stuff.”

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can”

“It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity”

“You cant 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 United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced”

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

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

“Rock journalism is people who cant write interviewing people who cant talk for people who cant read”

“I dont want to see any religious people in public office because theyre working for another boss”

“If your children ever find out how lame you really are, theyll murder you in your sleep”

“One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change peoples minds.”

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

“Those Jesus freaks, well theyre friendly but, the shit they believe has got their minds all shut”

“In a fight between you and the world, pick the world”

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

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”