Frank Zappa Quotes

The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing.

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.

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an ‘inconvenience’. We have opted instead for an authoritarian system “disguised’ as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those […]

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

I still went to church regularly, though, until I was eighteen years old. Then suddenly, the light bulb went on over my head. All the mindless morbidity and discipline was pretty sick – bleeding this, painful that and no meat on Friday. What is this shit?

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

The more Boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being Good Parents – because they have a Tame Child-creature in their house.

What’s the ugliest part of your body? What’s the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes, But I think it’s your mind.

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There’s a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their […]

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.