Frank Zappa Quotes

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

There is a certain method in his madness.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.

It's said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In that case, the WWE 'creative' team must be as crazy as a rainbow trout in a car wash.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

A ruby-encrusted orb popped its top and helicopter blades unfolded. Leo was glad Buford the table wasn't here-he would've fallen in love.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.