Music is always a commentary on society.

Quote by Frank Zappa

Topics: Music Quotes, Society Quotes

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the...

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the...

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical...

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical...

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something...

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something...

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block...

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block...

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules,...

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules,...

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny

Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me...

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me...

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people...

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people...

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it...

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it...

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or...

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or...

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline -...

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline -...

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves....

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves....

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring,...

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring,...

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.