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“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned—I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture or...” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is the best.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your Dad, your priest, to some guy on television, to any of the people telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively — because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“The more varied your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like.”
“It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of OUR NATIONAL STUPIDITY.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“A drug is neither moral nor immoral — it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“I detest love lyrics. I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on love lyrics.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“The more boring the child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“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, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance space is sculpted into something.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Anything can be music, but it doesn't become music until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to perceive it as music.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (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).” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”
“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Nobody looks good wearing brown lipstick.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Gail has said in interviews before that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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