by Robert Wilkinson
Frank Zappa was a world class guitarist, arranger, and wit. When he was around, he crossed swords in some very public arenas and always came out on top. The other day I came across a list of some things he said, so figured I’d share them with you.
For your enjoyment, quotes from Frank Zappa!
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
"Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?"
"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."
"You can't be a real country unless you have 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."
“One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds."
“It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
"Music is a commentary on society."
"Without deviation progress is not possible."
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence."
"Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read."
"You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."
"The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else’s life."
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