Quotes by Frank Zappa

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 hadnt asked any questions.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.

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.

Theres a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

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

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

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 youve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

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

I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If youre out there and youre cute, maybe youre beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin — theres more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

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.

Jazz isnt dead. It just smells funny.

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

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

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