Quote

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

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
Take
Joke
Whole
Jokes
Atheism
Large
Serious
Universe
Anything
Everything
Subdivisions

More quotes by Frank Zappa

Image
It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.
Frank Zappa
Image
Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.
Frank Zappa
Image
Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?
Frank Zappa
Image
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
Image
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.
Frank Zappa
Image
What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?
Frank Zappa
Image
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.
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
Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
Frank Zappa
Image
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank Zappa
Image
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
Frank Zappa
Image
Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.
Frank Zappa
Image
Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.
Frank Zappa
Image
The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'.
Frank Zappa
Image
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.
Frank Zappa
Image
I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.
Frank Zappa
Image
Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.
Frank Zappa
Image
Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.
Frank Zappa
Image
The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can't talk about that.
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