Latest Frank Zappa Quotes from Interviews

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• Very few people do covers of my tunes.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Tunes

  Source: afka.net

• Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Writing, Pay

  Source: afka.net

• Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails.

  Frank Zappa

  Morning, House, Nails

  Source: afka.net

• There's a price you pay for drinking too much, for eating too much sugar, smoking too much marijuana, using too much cocaine, or even drinking too much water. All those things can mess you up, especially, drinking too much L.A. water ... or Love Canal for that matter. But, if people had a better idea of what moderation is really all about, then some of these problems would ... If you use too much of something, your body's just gonna go the "Huh? ... Duh!"

  Frank Zappa

  Drinking, Marijuana, Ideas

  Source: afka.net

• If you are home, and you got no place to go, and you want to, just blow yourself up ... Go ahead ... The drugs themselves ... There's a price for doing stuff to yourself.

  Frank Zappa

  Home, Blow, Drug

  Source: afka.net

• The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the guy next door, you're a criminal, and you ought to be punished for that especially if you're in a position where your actions could affect large numbers of people. Being a doctor, a legislator, a judge, an airline pilot, where somebody's life depends on you.

  Frank Zappa

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Numbers, Doctors

  Source: afka.net

• The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Drug Use, People, Problem

  Source: afka.net

• I mean, if you want to hurt yourself, go ahead. It's like, if you want to jack off, go ahead, just don't 'spoo' on a public bus or something . Do whatever you want to do. Just don't get it in somebody else's face.

  Frank Zappa

  Hurt, Mean, Faces

  Source: afka.net

• The thing about drugs is this ... the Libertarians kind of have the right idea on this: Basically, their theory is that you own your own body, and the government should get out of your face. But, you also do not have the right to harm other people or to impinge on their rights or space. So, let's apply that to drugs . If you want to get wrecked, and you could afford it, and you have a place to do it where the results of your behavior can't harm another person, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be allowed to do it.

  Frank Zappa

  Space, Rights, Government

  Source: afka.net

• Actually, I don't get to do it (watch 5 or so news shows) every day, but I manage to do it at least 5 times a week. And the rest of the time I'm doing interviews. I do an amazing amount of interviews.

  Frank Zappa

  Interviews, Watches, News

  Source: afka.net

• Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.

  Frank Zappa

  Cnn, Giving, Viewpoints

  Source: afka.net

• I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well, 99 percent of on the songs on the radio deal with the topic of love and we use the term loosely. So, kids have heard love, love, love, love ... the minute they turn on the radio. Do you see any kids doing love? I see them doing crack ... but not love. So, it's bullshit!

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Kids, Mean

  Source: afka.net

• It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Superstitions, Claims

  Source: afka.net

• My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that is so horrible that it will send you to burn forever in that lake of fire! It's not gonna happen.

  Frank Zappa

  Fire, Lakes, Forever

  Source: afka.net

• We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!

  Frank Zappa

  Facts, Adults, Looks

  Source: afka.net

• When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them moved into suburbia, and started writing postcards to the FCC.

  Frank Zappa

  Sleep, Writing, Fcc

  Source: afka.net

• The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.

  Frank Zappa

  Wings, Fcc, Tiny

  Source: afka.net

• Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there's going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.

  Frank Zappa

  Dirty, Opposites, Sky

  Source: afka.net

• How can I lose? I've already offended everybody!

  Frank Zappa

  Loses, Offended

  Source: afka.net

• People call me for interviews on censorship type topics all the time, like that Gannette interview.I don't hold myself out to be an authority on it, but the reason they call me is that they know that I'll at least open my mouth, and give an opinion, whereas other people will play it safe, and won't say anything, because they don't want to offend anybody.

  Frank Zappa

  Play, People, Giving

  Source: afka.net

• I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?

  Frank Zappa

  White, House, President

  Source: afka.net

• People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and roll records. Most of the people making these records do it because it is a business, and if someone says, "You can't do this", they won't complain. They'll just keep making records, but they'll get blander and blander. There'll still be rock and roll, but compared to what it really could be or ought to be, I don't think it'll be all that terrific.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, Rocks

  Source: afka.net

• You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

  Frank Zappa

  Mean, Thinking, Hours

  Source: afka.net

• I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

  Frank Zappa

  Musician, Just One

• The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

  Frank Zappa

  Lying, Piano, Soul