Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
If people stop copying my music, I should start to worry.
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property. Frank Zappa on Howard Stern, 1987
I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.
The idea of people sticking things up their nose in order to be groovy is really repulsive.
The other factor that people forget about the southern region is the amount of inter-marriage that has already occurred there, and so there are certain genetic defects come to the fore when you have a large inter-marriage population. That means regression .... And in fact Utah is another state, which is basically owned by the Mormon church, which also has a lot of inter-marriage and because this type of inter-marriage there is a large proportion of blind people in Utah. That's why when you go across the street, instead of just a stop light that you can see, they have stop lights that make a coo-coo noise to tell you when to cross the street- that's true!
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really serious ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.
I've been in discos around the world. I've made a very thorough sociological study of discos ... As long as people want to get laid, there will be something like a disco -- because that's the main social function of a discoteque.
