I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.


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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
We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band...
DWEEZIL 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
I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task ...
DWEEZIL 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