Frank Zappa

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Frank Zappa

A composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Frank Zappa

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

Frank Zappa

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

Frank Zappa

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.

Frank Zappa

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Frank Zappa

Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It’s two steps removed from the Inquisition.

Frank Zappa

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

Frank Zappa

Definition of rock journalism: People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read.

Frank Zappa