Frank Zappa

I don't believe in censorship. I believe in freedom of speech.

The difference between a theory and a law is that you can break a law.

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 tuberculosis.

If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your father, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

The bass player's function is to give the bass drum some competition.

Music is the most powerful thing in the world. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can make you dance, it can make you think.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Tobacco is a plant, a weed, a vegetable. Nicotine is a chemical. You're smoking a chemical.