Quotes by Frank Zappa

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

“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.”

“No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.”

“The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.”

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”

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

“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

“Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.”

“Music is always a commentary on society.”

“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”

“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”

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