Frank Zappa Inspirational Quotes (203)

There is no hell, there's only France

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

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music.

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

You know, people are basically shitty

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.