Quotes by Zappa, Frank

"A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole."

Zappa, Frank on drugs
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"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."

Zappa, Frank on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

Zappa, Frank on journalism and journalists
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"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."

Zappa, Frank on music   

"The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made."

Zappa, Frank on music
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"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."

Zappa, Frank on music
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"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to."

Zappa, Frank on rock and roll
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"Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad."

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

Zappa, Frank on time
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"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best."

Zappa, Frank on
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"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."

Zappa, Frank on government
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