Zappa Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford. — Rick Moranis

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist. — Ilya Ehrenburg

I will die. The person who succeeds me will also have to die. But elections, you won't have. — Augusto Pinochet

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other? — Frank Zappa

Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you
whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa) — Elizabeth Chandler

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics. — Gail Zappa

I love her," Kane suddenly remarked from the other side of the room. "God bless her heart. I love her."
He was chuckling wickedly as he looked back at the Felines staring at him. "Wolves eat cats for dinner.
By God, I wanna be a wolf." He looked at Sherra and growled. — Lora Leigh

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible. — Francis Bacon

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person. — Swami Vivekananda

The third proved problematic. Until the case reached it's end I was reduced to nothing but an absent gaze. Think of it this way: I was a pair of abstract eyes walking around wearing my flesh as a disguise. Living as such, there was no point in expecting any form of societal responsibility or human reaction. — Kiyoshi Kasai

Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America. — Frank Zappa

Simos said, "Grief work must be shared. In sharing, however, there must be no impatience, censure or boredom with the repetition, because repetition is necessary for catharsis and internalization and eventual unconscious acceptance of the reality of the loss. The bereaved are sensitive to the feelings of others and will not only refrain from revealing feelings to those they consider unequal to the burden of sharing the grief but may even try to comfort the helpers." (97) — Charles L. Whitfield

Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you've been given. — Paul David Tripp

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief. — Christopher Pike

Part of loving someone is wanting them to be happy, even if it hurts you. — Leah Raeder

As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie. — Luke Bryan

All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control — Frank Zappa

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? — Frank Zappa