The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
Frank ZappaHer head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.
Frank ZappaMusic, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank ZappaScience is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
Frank ZappaCocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.
Frank ZappaThese girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.
Frank ZappaHere's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.
Frank ZappaConducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.
Frank ZappaThere is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.
Frank ZappaI don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?
Frank ZappaJust be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.
Frank ZappaPower will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.
Frank ZappaKid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.
Frank ZappaOur big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.
Frank ZappaThe 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.
Frank ZappaIt's fairly obvious, since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United States -- You're just not gonna get it. It's a joke -- the people that you vote for, they're the next best thing to criminals. But of course they have money for advertising campaigns that make them look a little bit better than they actually are.
Frank ZappaIn every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has - to put in mildly - a fatal design flaw.
Frank ZappaThe computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank ZappaAsked random questions about the First Amendment and how they would like to have it applied, if you believe in polls at all, the average American wants no part of it. But if you ask, 'What if we threw the Constitution away tomorrow?' the answer is 'No, that would be bad!' But living under the Constitution is another story altogether.
Frank ZappaA composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank ZappaCensoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
Frank ZappaWhy do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
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