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Dweezil Zappa

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GREG KURSTIN Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention ...
DARON MALAKIAN I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played noth...
DAVE KEUNING I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat.
THE WRITTEN FACE Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.
LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...
EILEEN CADDY If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat...
TIFFANY GARLAND Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison.
MARY EVANS Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA Radio Television Serbia, despite the appearance, is an instrument of war. It has nothing to do with ...
JAMIE SHEA When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug/
ROBERT BROWN Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the mu...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the ra...
RUBEN BLADES You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of cove...
DAVID BOWIE This band is about two things – the music and the fans. This team we're working with has given us ...
JON BON JOVI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC The mystery of the written word;It bequeaths a different meaning every blessed day.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti...
GEORGE MARTIN The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every da...
MICHAEL ENDE Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never playe...
BILL WYMAN All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musici...
WIN BUTLER I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamen...
ROBERT CAILLIAU All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA The love talked and written about so much in novels, poetry and magazines, the love of one's neighbo...
MIGUEL SERRANO Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon...
DON ROSE The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record co...
KEN AULETTA My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could ca...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN There are literally books written about how one goes about trying to define signs or symptoms of abu...
DON STRASSBERG I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden a...
DAVID BOWIE Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certa...
M. WARD Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... The chance to do it over again is called now.
J.R. RIM What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ...and frankly speaking, I don't give a damn.
YUVIKA MATHUR -GONE WITH THE TIME. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL Why would you hire MTV to do music? MTV has nothing to do with music, ok? MTV is to music as KFC is ...
LEWIS BLACK We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Time is weird. That much is obvious. Sometimes I think everything happens at once, which is anything...
MARCELO FIGUERAS The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
JENNIFER NIVEN The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad.
JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
JENNIFER NEVIN If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him...
JENNIFER NIVEN In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 190...
ELLIOTT CARTER Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so success...
CHUCK MANGIONE Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.
ROBIN TROWER I'm so excited about joining Radio 1, ... When I was a kid I did the classic thing of taping shows o...
FEARNE COTTON There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and t...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and t...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to ...
WOLE SOYINKA Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.
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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 didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
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 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 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 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 Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something...
FRANK ZAPPA The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, ...
FRANK ZAPPA I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off...
AHMET ZAPPA Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPA Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
FRANK ZAPPA It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: on...
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 I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those ...
AHMET ZAPPA All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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 I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but thin...
AHMET 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 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 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 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 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.