Quote

I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.

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
People
Irritated
Irritating
Enjoy

More quotes by Frank Zappa

Image
If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.
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
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
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
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
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.
Frank Zappa
Image
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Frank Zappa
Image
You know, people are basically shitty
Frank Zappa
Image
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
Image
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
Frank Zappa
Image
Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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
Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.
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
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
Hair growing out every hole in me.
Frank Zappa
Image
He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.
Frank Zappa
Image
If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?
Frank Zappa
Image
You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.
Frank Zappa
Image
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank Zappa