Top 374 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Zappa - Page 6

King of kings, that must be Elvis.

Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails.

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them moved into suburbia, and started writing postcards to the FCC.

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole?

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

People call me for interviews on censorship type topics all the time, like that Gannette interview.I don't hold myself out to be an authority on it, but the reason they call me is that they know that I'll at least open my mouth, and give an opinion, whereas other people will play it safe, and won't say anything, because they don't want to offend anybody.

Did he really choose Tammy to do his work?

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set!

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

While your children are sleeping, your puppy is crappin'.

They were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like Donovan fans.

People are just waiting around to get certified.

The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay.

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

There isn't anything weird about my music.

Gave my money all to you, took my watch and pawned it, too.

Wowie zowie, love me do. Wowie zowie, and I'll love you, too.

She use to knock me out until her face broke out.

Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric - there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell.

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

Actually, I don't get to do it (watch 5 or so news shows) every day, but I manage to do it at least 5 times a week. And the rest of the time I'm doing interviews. I do an amazing amount of interviews.

She was a steady date until she put on some weight.

I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.

Brown shoes don't make it.

Hair growing out every hole in me.

Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.

Michael is Janet and Janet is Michael.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

If you are home, and you got no place to go, and you want to, just blow yourself up ... Go ahead ... The drugs themselves ... There's a price for doing stuff to yourself.

Am I a boy or a lady, I don't know which?

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse.

Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?

Left me here to cry alone with a bottle of juice and pork chop bone.

The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.

The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.

It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner

Donnie and Marie can both take a bite.

Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don't ever go.

Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.

Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.