Ahmet Zappa quote: "The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence."

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

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those ...
AHMET ZAPPA

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but thin...
AHMET 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

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, ...
AHMET ZAPPA

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political l...
AHMET SEZNER

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a moder...
AHMET SEZNER

The powers given to the president exceed the boundaries of parliamentary democracy.
AHMET SEZNER

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothe...
AHMET SEZNER

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might ...
AHMET SEZNER

Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
AHMET SEZNER

He's very strong in the post and very talented.
AHMET GUEYE

We're not nervous. We're excited. We would rather be playing for first, but we still have a chance f...
AHMET GUEYE

Not to sound cocky, but I think it is hard to come inside and shoot against us.
AHMET GUEYE

I don't go into games looking for blocks. But if there's an opportunity for me, I will try. I just g...
AHMET GUEYE

Stephen is a big, big player, so he makes me work really hard. Every time he blocks my shot, then I ...
AHMET GUEYE

I didn't know about that, but I'm pretty happy.
AHMET GUEYE

We know everything is in our hands now. We have to take care of business at home and we have to get ...
AHMET GUEYE

I have a big task inside. He's a great player and it'll be a great challenge.
AHMET GUEYE

We need to get it before the conference. Because when the conference starts we're going to start tra...
AHMET GUEYE

It was a tough game. We struggled a lot. We were starting to be frustrated.
AHMET GUEYE

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian ...
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being...
AHMET ERTEGUN

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessaril...
AHMET ERTEGUN

I don't use the computer. But my secretary does. I want to take some computer courses because I&...
AHMET ERTEGUN

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember m...
AHMET ERTEGUN

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because...
AHMET ERTEGUN

Bu ülke çok acımasız, bu topraklar çok sert, bu toprakların insanları çok hoyrat, bu ülke g...
AHMET ÜMIT

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engag...
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability...
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.
AHMET ERTEGUN

There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and St...
AHMET ERTEGUN

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Tu...
AHMET ERTEGUN

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or sev...
AHMET ERTEGUN

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can...
AHMET ERTEGUN

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.
AHMET ERTEGUN

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I ...
AHMET ERTEGUN

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
AHMET ERTEGUN

My first wife was a theater person.
AHMET ERTEGUN

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't s...
AHMET ERTEGUN

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest...
AHMET ERTEGUN

I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000...
AHMET ERTEGUN

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of cours...
AHMET ERTEGUN

I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even b...
AHMET ERTEGUN

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music...
AHMET ERTEGUN

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
AHMET ERTEGUN

It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in T...
AHMET ERTEGUN

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the ...
AHMET ERTEGUN

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

Today the search for a new global order is under way.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power ...
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democra...
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establi...
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

Our future is our sense of common destiny.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

Some things are difficult to adapt to.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very ...
AHMET ERTEGUN

As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and ex...
AHMET ERTEGUN

Şahane bir aşk, çoğu zaman harcanmış bir hayat demektir.
AHMET ÜMIT

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...
FRANK ZAPPA

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, ...
FRANK 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

About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It...
DWEEZIL 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

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

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

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music becaus...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
FRANK 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

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

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do w...
DWEEZIL 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

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

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

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The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

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