Quote

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

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
Beginning
Wrong
Inspirational
Anything
Arrangement
Arrangements
Twice
Played

More quotes by Frank Zappa

Image
Very few people do covers of my tunes.
Frank Zappa
Image
Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
Frank Zappa
Image
Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
Image
What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?
Frank Zappa
Image
I'm in a big dilemma about my Big-Leg Emma.
Frank Zappa
Image
Shut Up and Play your Guitar.
Frank Zappa
Image
To me absurdity is the only reality
Frank Zappa
Image
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank Zappa
Image
As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.
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
Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.
Frank Zappa
Image
So many books, so little time.
Frank Zappa
Image
Tighten my headband for an extra rush.
Frank Zappa
Image
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
Image
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
Frank Zappa
Image
Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.
Frank Zappa
Image
Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.
Frank Zappa
Image
I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.
Frank Zappa
Image
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa
Image
I never have no trouble with my rubber girl.
Frank Zappa