Quotes by Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

American rock musician

Lived from: 1940 - 1993

Born: 21 december 1940 Died: 4 december 1993

  • There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
  • 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.

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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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.
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  • Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.''
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What are the most famous quotes from Frank Zappa?

The two most famous quotes from Frank Zappa are:

  • "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."
  • "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."

When did Frank Zappa live?

Frank Zappa was born in 1940 and died in the year 1993.