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My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like...
BILL HADER I always tell people that it's not very good to put water features in a bedroom -- not even painting...
LILLIAN TOO The structures around you also emanate energy, ... and if these structures are placed in a harmoniou...
LILLIAN TOO The most important thing to understand is that feng shui is really about the energy that's surroundi...
LILLIAN TOO Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.
ADRIENNE GUSOFF If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.
ADRIENNE GUSOFF Defense properties are too expensive these days.
CHRIS ULLMAN It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere.
ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA By throwing on more and more responsibilities, employees become more expensive and eventually too ex...
GEORGE RUNNER Our laws are too lax, our justice system too weak - particularly when it comes to violent, dangerous...
SUSANA MARTINEZ Anything that costs you your integrity is too expensive.
JEFFREY FRY This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly.
JOHNNY ADRIANI The problem is that labor has basically priced itself out of the market. We had a very sharp run up ...
PAUL KASRIEL You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.
EDDIE IZZARD These days feelings are so expensive....they cost you too much...
PRIYALUCI I don't borrow on credit cards because it is too expensive.
MATT BARRETT Overhead costs are far too high, state support is dropping, and college tuition is far too expensive...
THOMAS FREY The best things in life are free. The rest are too expensive.
SHORT QUOTES It's too expensive to have your due process or day in court.
BILL FLEISCHLI Be careful, in now a day's
love can be too much expensive.
BRADLEY B. DALINA We've heard from groups that it's too expensive to use portable stages.
VINCE PARDO We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instructio...
XUN KUANG Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reali...
THOMAS SOWELL Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance compan...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Retailers who haven't already invested in a POS system think they are too expensive.
ALLAN KATZ Not one person can afford your dream; the execution of it is too expensive.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to exp...
JIM RAMSTAD She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.
GILLIAN FLYNN Gas prices are killing me. It's already too expensive for me to deal with it.
DUG ROTSTEIN Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme l...
GEORGE CHAPMAN Britain let violent speeches go on too long, ... Laxity in this area isn't good for anybody.
DALIL BOUBAKEUR People in New York and Boston want nonstop service to Austin, but it's been too difficult and expens...
DAVID NEELEMAN AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
AMBROSE BIERCE Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality
THOMAS SOWELL I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
LESLIE ODOM, JR. How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC In a fight between you and the world, pick the world
FRANK ZAPPA I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly.
Hazel Smiled and ruffled h...
RICK RIORDAN Investors are concerned that shares have gotten too expensive and there's no reason to buy into the ...
KOJI UCHIDA Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
AMBROSE BIERCE I just hope we keep in our minds that an effort like this can never be too expensive.
ELVIS COSTELLO The city won't invest or operate the service. The service cannot be too expensive and must be univer...
CHRIS O'BRIEN The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. Peop...
DIANE ARCHER The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... ...
DIANE ARCHER Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too gr...
SASKYA PANDITA Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more beco...
FREDERICK W. SMITH I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too exc...
KARA DIOGUARDI In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I ...
MAGGIE CAREY I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot...
BEN WHEATLEY I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change...
JARON LANIER I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothi...
BILL CUNNINGHAM The ultimate deterrent for the oil market is when the price becomes too expensive for people to fill...
IAN HENDERSON [The symptoms eventually became too severe to ignore.] He became very violent, and I couldn't handle...
LINDA DANO Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy...
DAN CASTELLANETA These drugs are far too seductive, and the rewards for using them are far too great for us to think ...
CHARLES YESALIS I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I...
CARL LEWIS The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, ...
RAYMOND KELLY My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap...
VALERIE JUNE I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive ...
CAITLIN ROSE I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to ch...
JARON LANIER It's too expensive to hire the wrong person. Anything we can do to help us build the right team is w...
DAVID HANSON Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA ...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... ...
JEAN-FRANçOIS LYOTARD What the president presents is a false choice between staying the course and cutting and running. Ju...
CARL LEVIN Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a ba...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I remember my very first recording. It was on a wire recorder, as the tape recording was only just o...
HERBIE HANCOCK The tests that need to be done are not onerous, too difficult or too expensive. Some companies might...
GLENN BRANK They're going to sell about five of them. I'm all for integration, and I think customers are, too, b...
JOE LASZLO 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY Men and women aren't too dissimilar.
CHRIS EVANS Cam restored her clothing slowly, his strong hands lifting her from the beech. Crushing her close, h...
LISA KLEYPAS Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of ...
ANN OAKLEY This release is targeted at branch office backups. Most organizations have branch office backup in p...
CRAIG ANDREWS One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to ...
SARAH CHURCHWELL I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I...
JACKIE CHAN T-shirts are big business. I think that might be because you can make an artful statement by wearing...
CHRIS CHERRY I talk too much.
ALEX MERAZ Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. S...
BERYL BAINBRIDGE Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career...
ANN OAKLEY Lighting is too expensive, so we plan to lease the lights from TECO. The cost of electricity will be...
GARY WARNER With the prefrontal cortex down-regulated, most impulse control mechanisms go offline too. For peopl...
STEVEN KOTLER The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to...
MARTIN MCDONAGH I think only Anthony Zappa knows the answers to that.
LARRY HOLMQUIST I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were A...
BRANDON FLOWERS They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the bl...
ALANA MASSEY All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. ...
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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...
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 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 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 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 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...
ZE FRANK