Frank Zappa Quotes
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
-
I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
-
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
-
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
-
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
-
Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
-
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
-
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
-
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
-
I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
-
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
-
When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
-
I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
-
I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
-
I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
-
I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
-
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
-
People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
-
Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
-
Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.
-
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
-
I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.
-
Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.
-
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
