Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To me absurdity is the only reality
Frank Zappa
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Absurdity
Reality
More quotes by Frank Zappa
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.
Frank Zappa
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Frank Zappa
Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
Frank Zappa
The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.
Frank Zappa
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
There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.
Frank Zappa
The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.
Frank Zappa
The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.
Frank Zappa
Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.
Frank Zappa
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.
Frank Zappa
Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.
Frank Zappa
Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.
Frank Zappa
Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.
Frank Zappa
I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.
Frank Zappa
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
Frank Zappa
I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.
Frank Zappa
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
Frank Zappa
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
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.
Frank Zappa
