You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.


Frank Zappa

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

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 kin...
FRANK ZAPPA
You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW
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
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
Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer se...
STEVEN HALL
First, you drink the beer, obviously, and you think about everything you’ve been through, includin...
RACHEL SHARP
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS
Look, you know and I know that it's either Abraham or Einstein, but dammit, a free beer is a free be...
THE ARCHIVES
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 never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. ...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Laugh in the face of those who try to oppress you. And crack a beer (root beer).
THEE AMAZING GRACE
Let's have a beer together, you can open it and I will drink it.
ANONYMOUS
It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experi...
LINDA M. GODWIN
We have, I think, come through the big danger of a vast and sudden exchange of nuclear weapons, ... ...
BEN BOVA
[But have no fear, there will be beer - the 4-H Club will sell Amber Bock by Budweiser.] It's a dark...
GEORGE ROCKWELL
To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS...
That's the thing that always gets me. We have to have football, because you reach young guys who dri...
JOE QUEENAN
It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happine...
LEMONY SNICKET
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
DAVE MUSTAINE
If you know you need to take some kind of risk, then get your relationship with God strong and go fo...
SADIE ROBERTSON
It helps if you have a string of five or six or seven good drafts to develop a team,
JON GRUDEN
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
When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what...
HIROKO SAKAI
I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, mo...
JENNIFER LOPEZ
These guys (the Irish) can light you up quick. Quarterback Brady Quinn can hurt you, and they have s...
ALLAN JOHNSON
We'd like very much to see a reduction in the interdependence of beer and football.
ANDY GEIGER
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
HENRY LAWSON
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer
HENRY LAWSON
All you need, you think, is a breather, a few minutes standing up at the bar like in the old days, h...
JONATHAN CRAIG
If you own an establishment, you should be able to decide if you have it or not. That's part of livi...
MIKE HARRIS
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
I am not sure if such simulated training is going to be a help. You mean to say if we tour Australia...
HARBHAJAN SINGH
It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the dif...
ISAAC HANSON
If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy...
ELLEN MALCOLM
I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer,...
GARY WEISS
To change your life, you need to take responsibility for it. You say you're broke whilst holding a b...
CHERYL RUSHTON
Unless you have a free press in your country, there is no need to buy newspapers and there is no nee...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
You're still here. No beer. I'm not corrupting a minor."
"But you're a minor," she point...
RACHEL CAINE
They have learned the lesson of North Korea. Once you have nuclear weapons, the US saber-rattling be...
LARRY JOHNSON
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
He always liked to have a good time. It could be a serious time and you could always count on him to...
JEFF GWALTNEY
For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, b...
CAI GUO-QIANG
If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
DAVE MUSTAINE
South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of ...
RUSSELL CROWE
You can't make beer out of corn syrup, and that's what some of these other folks are doing.
CRAIG BELSER
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose
JACK HANDY
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
DON MARQUIS
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
DON MARQUIS
When preparing the regular menu, you consider the wine. With the bar menu, you have mixed drinks. Th...
JASON GOULD
Nobody is going to talk to you unless you have some sense of what you need to do.
JOEL SCHWARTZ
You always have an idea where you're going to play. There's no doubt that it can always change. You ...
SERGIO GARCIA
It helps if you have a string of five or six or seven good drafts to develop a team. It helps when y...
JON GRUDEN
There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
A football helmet gives you an awful lot of protection, ... but you don't have to be a doctor or an ...
CYRIL WECHT
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael J...
MARC BLUCAS
We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghani...
GROVER NORQUIST
As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don&...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countr...
MICHAEL MOORE
If you look at what's growing in the beer industry, it's import and craft beers. They're higher pric...
HARRY SCHUHMACHER
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 there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see b...
TOM ROBBINS
Morse poured himself a can of beer. "Champagne's a lovely drink, but it makes you thirsty, doesn't i...
COLIN DEXTER
It helps a lot knowing you have your team behind you.
ANDREA BALINT
If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel... My friends tre...
TRAVIS FIMMEL
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chanc...
HANIF KUREISHI
There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a co...
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
If you had a terrorist incident, or a nuclear bomb or a biological weapon in a major metropolitan ar...
TIM PAWLENTY
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like...
BILL HADER
Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU"
There are things you don't learn in a classroom, and if your circumstances aren't rich in the sort o...
WILLIAM GALSTON
Fencing is usually an individual sport and in college you have a team cheering for you. Every win he...
CASSANDRA PARTYKA
[Of course, some experts simply say] beer has become the boring drink. ... You aren't going to drink...
BOB LACHKY
Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unles...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
We've got to make some kind of forecast, ... While it may be a little risky in some respects from an...
DICK CHENEY
Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off a...
HELEN ALLEN
If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m...
CRAIG FERGUSON
There are some areas that need to be improved, but there is certainly a core of talent that is equal...
AL SAUNDERS
It's an inane law that's a holdover from prohibition. It limits a third of the world's beer styles. ...
SEAN WILSON
Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA
Beer: All real men drink a specific brand of cheap beer. While I was growing up, my stepfather, who ...
FORREST GRIFFIN
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM
You can never buy beer, you just rent it.
ARCHIE BUNKER
You don't play beer ads in the morning and you don't play beer ads on the news, so they're going aga...
HARRY SCHUHMACHER
Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the re...
NIKKI ROWE
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER
We must be breaking some kind of world record by doing this. We're not in the 'Guinness Book of Worl...
SAMIR MATHUR
My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you ha...
RACHEL BILSON
If you are in business and self-supporting you already have some kind of competitive advantage no ma...
BRUCE HENDERSON

More Frank 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
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
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
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