All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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BILL HADER People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
FRANK DANE The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
FRANK DANE The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA It has wonderful music and a wonderful story that most people can relate to. It has incredible scene...
DAVID HANSEN People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS As time progresses, we will see more terrible music. Mainly because all the good songs have been wri...
AARON CONN Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA Frank has a good record with Edinburgh and he did well in the two summer internationals. He understa...
IAN MCGEECHAN We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on ...
KYLE ABRAHAM Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you ...
JIM ROHN Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you ...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashi...
PETER WARLOCK Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!
OSCAR WILDE Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so success...
CHUCK MANGIONE I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON Meeting new people with similar interests and learning all this stuff about making films has been a ...
MATT BATES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It should have been written already,
BRET ELLIS It should have been written already,
BRET EASTON ELLIS Every kid has been there already. They know what it looks like; they've seen all this stuff. For her...
KURT KNAUFF The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do w...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Like all men who look this good, Frank has no interest in women.
DENNIS SHARPE I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and...
CHRISETTE MICHELE Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about t...
GEORGE ORWELL Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of ...
YO-YO MA He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC Frank has been a plus for the facility and the state.
BILL ARNOLD He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff....
GEORGE HARRISON Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
ALEXIS KORNER I think we all realize this, but like most things we already know, this has been empirically verifie...
CARL ELLIOTT 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY looks me up and down and dismisses me with the not super-kind, 'What can you write that hasn't been ...
DAVID RAKOFF Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been writ...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON There's this other guy who's amazingly famous and who's written all these songs and has got all this...
PAUL MCCARTNEY All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was...
PETER WARLOCK The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think f...
LIZ PHAIR Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new ama...
TOM SHALES It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who ha...
WARREN ELLIS Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written b...
EDDIE IZZARD People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it...
TERRY GILLIAM Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t...
BRIAN WILSON All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you k...
CEELO GREEN All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word
ADOLF HITLER I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot...
DOLLY PARTON It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE All the good news about economic reports has already been discounted in share prices. The market is ...
KATSUNORI HIRAI People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE It doesn't add anything to existing law, but it leads people to think something has been done. It's ...
MARGOT SAUNDERS I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believ...
FRANK ZAPPA It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess D...
HASNAT KHAN No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom
supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Your impact fee has been written by the development industry. It's a scandal of monumental proportio...
DAN LOBECK Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remem...
SHERRI SHEPHERD Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music writt...
EDDIE IZZARD But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with...
BILLY JOE SAUNDERS But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man who bears me. Already your horn has ...
RODOLPHE KASSER We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
CARLES PUIGDEMONT Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washingto...
JULIAN BOND I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
LISA CHOLODENKO No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion
CARRIE CATT No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT The wins haven't picked up, but the quality of his stuff has been very good.
GUY HANSEN And it is silly how all the should've been, could've been and might've been hypothetical situations ...
MOULIKA DANAK Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation...
ANDREW ROSENTHAL No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour.
VIKRANT PARSAI The old stuff is really good. It's been around for years, and people are still using it.
GARRY LARSON Music has always been around with me.
EDDIE MURPHY It's a tough market today. The low-hanging fruit has already been picked. There are some nuggets of ...
GARY ELDRED When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE The lake already has been viewed as very good, if not outstanding, for boating, fishing, camping, an...
BILL DUEY Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the bu...
GUY KAWASAKI You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff alwa...
EDDIE MURPHY I use songs as weapons. I've written some really good, nasty songs about people I've been involved w...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY I already get calls all the time from people who have been turned away by their doctors. This is a v...
JENNY PIZER Chapell's word is out. Clarke has already been captaining Australia for the world cup and his team i...
APURVA GAGLANI We've stood shoulder to shoulder with the president, but with this action, all the good that has bee...
GILBERT GALLEGOS I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music...
TY DOLLA SIGN A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It has always been our long-standing policy that these assignments are voluntary and that is underst...
JEFFREY SCHNEIDER I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn&...
JOHN MAEDA
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
FRANK ZAPPA Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something...
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FRANK ZAPPA Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPA Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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FRANK ZAPPA Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can...
FRANK ZAPPA Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he need...
FRANK ZAPPA The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...
FRANK ZAPPA So many books, so little time.
FRANK ZAPPA Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
FRANK ZAPPA If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher,...
FRANK ZAPPA A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
FRANK ZAPPA Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed and permanently set.
FRANK ZAPPA Out of my mind! Back in five minutes.
FRANK ZAPPA Always follow your heart, but remember to bring your brain along.
FRANK ZAPPA A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs tr...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind ...
FRANK ZAPPA A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace...
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who c...
FRANK ZAPPA Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind o...
FRANK ZAPPA Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny
FRANK ZAPPA Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't re...
FRANK ZAPPA In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
FRANK ZAPPA Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
FRANK ZAPPA Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPA No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock...
FRANK ZAPPA It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities...
FRANK ZAPPA Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...
FRANK ZAPPA If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
FRANK ZAPPA Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going ...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to...
FRANK ZAPPA A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the a...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kin...
FRANK ZAPPA Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...
FRANK ZAPPA Without deviation progress is not possible.
FRANK ZAPPA If we were the Monkees, we'd be ready by now.
FRANK ZAPPA Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, ...
FRANK ZAPPA Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...
FRANK ZAPPA Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something,...
FRANK ZAPPA There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one...
FRANK ZAPPA Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon
FRANK ZAPPA Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner
FRANK ZAPPA The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, ...
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for peop...
FRANK ZAPPA There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love...
FRANK ZAPPA I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out ther...
FRANK ZAPPA Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
FRANK ZAPPA The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable.
FRANK ZAPPA Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true.
FRANK ZAPPA If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine- but to hang a...
FRANK ZAPPA No, I don't think people really give a shit about that (meeting one's maker) unless they're complete...
FRANK ZAPPA If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state
FRANK ZAPPA Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f...
FRANK ZAPPA I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss
FRANK ZAPPA Those Jesus freaks, well they're friendly but, the shit they believe has got their minds all shut
FRANK ZAPPA Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not
FRANK ZAPPA Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on
FRANK ZAPPA Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't re...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA In a fight between you and the world, pick the world
FRANK ZAPPA I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believ...
FRANK ZAPPA The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but ...
FRANK ZAPPA The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own
FRANK ZAPPA Do you love it - do you hate it? There it is the way you made it
FRANK ZAPPA too expensive and too violent.
FRANK ZAPPA Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, ...
FRANK ZAPPA The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place ...
FRANK ZAPPA Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could...
FRANK ZAPPA People, wake up Figure it out Religious fanatics Around and about The Court House, The State House, ...
FRANK ZAPPA Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he need...
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk
FRANK ZAPPA Music is always a commentary on society.
FRANK ZAPPA I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agre...
FRANK ZAPPA If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep
FRANK ZAPPA I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice...
FRANK ZAPPA It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects ...
FRANK ZAPPA Anything, Any time, Anywhere - for no Reason at All.
FRANK ZAPPA The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively ...
FRANK ZAPPA The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tabl...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rel...
FRANK ZAPPA I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if y...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agre...
FRANK ZAPPA Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind o...
FRANK ZAPPA There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the...
FRANK ZAPPA Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
FRANK ZAPPA I'm vile and perverted.
I'm obsessed and deranged.
I've existed for years but very little...
FRANK ZAPPA Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
FRANK ZAPPA There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
FRANK ZAPPA Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
FRANK ZAPPA My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f...
FRANK ZAPPA The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the po...
FRANK ZAPPA It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
FRANK ZAPPA Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget ab...
FRANK ZAPPA Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think,...
FRANK ZAPPA Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
FRANK ZAPPA Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is ...
FRANK ZAPPA Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
FRANK ZAPPA A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.
FRANK ZAPPA May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
FRANK ZAPPA I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
FRANK ZAPPA I detest love lyrics. I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that pe...
FRANK ZAPPA For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywh...
FRANK ZAPPA The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...
FRANK ZAPPA The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everythin...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of...
FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th...
AHMET ZAPPA The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't comm...
AHMET ZAPPA I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
AHMET ZAPPA I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are ...
AHMET ZAPPA I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
AHMET ZAPPA I collect things that just look retarded.
AHMET ZAPPA All the drawings are mine. Originally, the idea I sold to Random House was an illustrated recipe boo...
AHMET ZAPPA I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off...
AHMET ZAPPA About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for a...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music becaus...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those ...
AHMET ZAPPA I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but thin...
AHMET ZAPPA The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do w...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task ...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got ...
AHMET ZAPPA I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they h...
AHMET ZAPPA I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
AHMET ZAPPA At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school wa...
AHMET ZAPPA I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actuall...
AHMET ZAPPA The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't ...
AHMET ZAPPA My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, ...
AHMET ZAPPA Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously goo...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musician...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I don't care about a social life.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and j...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melo...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something lik...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textur...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music ...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing mus...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and som...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybo...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long s...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA Gag me with a spoon!
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked ...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make brea...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
FRANK IERO I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I...
FRANK SINATRA The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou...
ZE FRANK I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ...
ZE FRANK We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
ZE FRANK For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
ZE FRANK If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
ZE FRANK I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
ZE FRANK YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
ZE FRANK I'm fascinated by simple joy.
ZE FRANK We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
ZE FRANK What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
ZE FRANK I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
ZE FRANK I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
ZE FRANK In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
ZE FRANK Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
ZE FRANK Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
ZE FRANK Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
ZE FRANK The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
ZE FRANK When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
ZE FRANK On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
ZE FRANK I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
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