Frank Zappa: It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become...

There's a price you pay for drinking too much, for eating too much sugar, smoking too much marijuana, using too much cocaine, or even drinking too much water. All those things can mess you up, especially, drinking too much L.A. water ... or Love Canal for that matter. But, if people had a better idea of what moderation is really all about, then some of these problems would ... If you use too much of something, your body's just gonna go the "Huh? ... Duh!"

Frank Zappa

marijuana drinking ideas

While your children are sleeping, your puppy is crappin'.

Frank Zappa

sleep animal children

Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.

Frank Zappa

thirteen nasty reality

Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport

Frank Zappa

airports tickets car

He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin.

Frank Zappa

color skins reality

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.

Frank Zappa

band government together

Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand.

Frank Zappa

symphony

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

Frank Zappa

newts dangerous ideas

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

Frank Zappa

lame sleep children

The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.

Frank Zappa

old-lady meat gone

Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.

Frank Zappa

writing song pay

I mean, if you want to hurt yourself, go ahead. It's like, if you want to jack off, go ahead, just don't 'spoo' on a public bus or something . Do whatever you want to do. Just don't get it in somebody else's face.

Frank Zappa

hurt faces mean

So many books, so little time.

Frank Zappa

motivational inspirational life

The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the guy next door, you're a criminal, and you ought to be punished for that especially if you're in a position where your actions could affect large numbers of people. Being a doctor, a legislator, a judge, an airline pilot, where somebody's life depends on you.

Frank Zappa

pursuit-of-happiness doctors numbers

If you are home, and you got no place to go, and you want to, just blow yourself up ... Go ahead ... The drugs themselves ... There's a price for doing stuff to yourself.

Frank Zappa

drug blow home

My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that is so horrible that it will send you to burn forever in that lake of fire! It's not gonna happen.

Frank Zappa

fire lakes forever

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

Frank Zappa

toilets use book

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.

Frank Zappa

religious law writing

I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

Frank Zappa

yuppies health thinking

Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents.

Frank Zappa

turns speed parent

It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner