A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

— Frank Zappa

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

— Frank Zappa

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

— Frank Zappa

Behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

— Frank Zappa

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

— Frank Zappa

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

— Frank Zappa

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

— Frank Zappa

For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.

— Frank Zappa