Quote

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

Frank Zappa

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
Actor
Composer
Film Director
Film Producer
Guitarist
Journalist
Musician
Record Producer
Rock Guitarist
Rock Musician
Screenwriter
Singer
Baltimore
Maryland
Frank Vincent Zappa
Behind
Movement
Government
Breakaway
Demagogue
Behinds

More quotes by Frank Zappa

Image
Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.
Frank Zappa
Image
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.
Frank Zappa
Image
My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.
Frank Zappa
Image
They were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like Donovan fans.
Frank Zappa
Image
Michael is Janet and Janet is Michael.
Frank Zappa
Image
The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.
Frank Zappa
Image
Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.
Frank Zappa
Image
Shut Up and Play your Guitar.
Frank Zappa
Image
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.
Frank Zappa
Image
I never have no trouble with my rubber girl.
Frank Zappa
Image
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
Frank Zappa
Image
Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.
Frank Zappa
Image
Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
Frank Zappa
Image
The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus.
Frank Zappa
Image
Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.
Frank Zappa
Image
If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.
Frank Zappa
Image
You're baloney without the mayo.
Frank Zappa
Image
I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.
Frank Zappa
Image
My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.
Frank Zappa
Image
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
Frank Zappa