Zappa: "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."

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

Zappa: "Music is always a commentary on society."

Zappa: "Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."

Zappa: "Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."

Zappa: "One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds."

Zappa: "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."

Zappa: "You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."

Zappa: "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

Zappa: "Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence."

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

Zappa: "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."

Zappa: "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Zappa: "It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

Zappa: "Without deviation progress is not possible."