1940-, American Rock Musician
A drug is neither moral nor immoral — it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
Frank Zappa – [Drugs]
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man — and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
Frank Zappa – [Stardom]
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa – [Journalism and Journalists]
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa – [Music]
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 – [Rock and Roll]
The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie –it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
Frank Zappa – [Music]
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa – [Music]
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa – [Time and Time Management]
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 – [Alcohol and Alcoholism]