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

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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

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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.- Frank Zappa

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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. -Frank Zappa

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I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars. ― Marie Lu

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Without deviation progress is not possible.- Frank Zappa

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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. -Frank Zappa

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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.- Frank Zappa

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The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written. - Joyce Carol Oates

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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

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