You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa
Related You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind ... 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 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. 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 Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer se... STEVEN HALL Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And i... ANTONIN SCALIA It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the dif... ISAAC HANSON To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have... RICK MORANIS If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy... ELLEN MALCOLM When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a... SUSAN CAIN Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have... FRANK ZAPPA I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. ... SAMUEL L. JACKSON Let's have a beer together, you can open it and I will drink it. ANONYMOUS There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghani... GROVER NORQUIST If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full. DAVE MUSTAINE And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at l... MAYA ANGELOU First, you drink the beer, obviously, and you think about everything you’ve been through, includin... RACHEL SHARP You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A phot... DANIEL CLOWES You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a... DIANE ENGLISH You can't be a professor without having been a student. You can't be a consultant without ha... NIRMALYA KUMAR In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind ... JAMES BLUNT Look, you know and I know that it's either Abraham or Einstein, but dammit, a free beer is a free be... THE ARCHIVES If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full. DAVE MUSTAINE Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't t... RICHARD DESMOND If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chanc... HANIF KUREISHI To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or hav... MICHAEL LEUNIG I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer,... GARY WEISS Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ba... XAVI If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you... DARIN STRAUSS The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI These guys (the Irish) can light you up quick. Quarterback Brady Quinn can hurt you, and they have s... ALLAN JOHNSON It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experi... LINDA M. GODWIN It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happine... LEMONY SNICKET You can't really indulge in anything when you're wearing a unitard. No bread, no beer, no an... TOM LENK Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes... JOHN MADDEN North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countr... MICHAEL MOORE You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating mea... GRANT WOOD You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine, ... Beer is great for basting or marinating... GRANT WOOD So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you... PETER L. BERGER Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep wo... GARY SINISE As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don&... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kin... DOUGLAS BRUNT You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I me... ANDY TAYLOR When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what... HIROKO SAKAI If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talk... JOE GREENE I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you. BILL O'REILLY You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you. BILL O'REILLY You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't... ANNE DUDLEY You're still here. No beer. I'm not corrupting a minor." "But you're a minor," she point... RACHEL CAINE There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a co... EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Now you can have a small taste of beer or wine and a bit of food to go with it without the emotional... CLARK WOLF Morse poured himself a can of beer. "Champagne's a lovely drink, but it makes you thirsty, doesn't i... COLIN DEXTER You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to... SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael J... MARC BLUCAS You have to at least had sex in your van once, or be trying to. And you have to play music of some s... BETH ALLEN You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later. CRAIG GROESCHEL We have, I think, come through the big danger of a vast and sudden exchange of nuclear weapons, ... ... BEN BOVA We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American t... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They do... KIM YOUNG-SAM I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, mo... JENNIFER LOPEZ I am not sure if such simulated training is going to be a help. You mean to say if we tour Australia... HARBHAJAN SINGH Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with l... SAMUEL DASH If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel... My friends tre... TRAVIS FIMMEL We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're... EDDIE VAN HALEN Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow? MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK You need an actor who can maintain a character over a long period of time. If you have a weak actor,... DAVID L. WOLPER And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record... JOAN JETT You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take... ROGER EBERT The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had th... HAYDEN PANETTIERE What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless yo... JOE PATERNO If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see b... TOM ROBBINS Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of s... IO TILLETT WRIGHT You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you ha... IRIS APFEL All you need, you think, is a breather, a few minutes standing up at the bar like in the old days, h... JONATHAN CRAIG When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, y... T. BOONE PICKENS It helps if you have a string of five or six or seven good drafts to develop a team, JON GRUDEN Laugh in the face of those who try to oppress you. And crack a beer (root beer). THEE AMAZING GRACE The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters.... MICHELLE OBAMA They have learned the lesson of North Korea. Once you have nuclear weapons, the US saber-rattling be... LARRY JOHNSON Football is a team game. Individually, you can have breakdowns, but if we all do our job as a team, ... CHAD BROWN Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have som... DAVE HICKEY
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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. 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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 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 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... ZE FRANK