Zappa Quotes

“I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?”
― Frank Zappa

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
― Frank Zappa

“lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.”
― Frank Zappa

“Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it".”
― Frank Zappa

“I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank Zappa” and “window onto a magical world.” He said I fell to earth, leaving wing-marks on the ceilings of our dreams.”
― Jalina Mhyana, Dreaming in Night Vision: A Story in Vignettes

“Progress demands deviation from the norm.”
― Frank Zappa

“It always seemed to me that if you could get a laugh out of something, that was good, and if you could make life more colorful than it actually was, that was good. So, any artist of individual who worked in those two directions was doing something good.”
― Frank Zappa