Zappa for kids "The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have

to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property" Source: Frank Zappa on Howard Stern 1987 "Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute. " Source: Zappa's liner notes for Freak Out "The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house. Source: "Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa" October 1993 (Mojo Magazine) "If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT." Source: "The Real Frank Zappa Book "My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can." Do what you re told or we ll punish you. Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read. Ben Watson interviews Frank Zappa", in MOJO magazine (October 1993) Tobacco is my favorite vegetable. Interview on the Today Show NBC (1993) I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right. Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things. When asked what amazes him about people, in an interview with Grace Slick on Rockplace (11 February 1984) YouTube video I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do. Interview on Nationwide (1 July 1983) I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird. As quoted in No Commercial Potential : The Saga of Frank Zappa (1972) by David Walley, p. 4 Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute. Liner notes for the album Freak Out! (27 June 1966)

Frank Zappa Philosophy

Yeah! I take a very cynical point of view. I think that being cynical is a positive value. I think that nobody should trust anybody else. I think that all people are assholes until proven different and I think that if you take that point of view you ll be disappointed less in life. If you always expect the worse from people then the minute they do something nice it s a pleasure. If you think that people are good then you ll always be disappointed. Cos they re not.. they don t care. You know Don t expect friends Don t expect fun Don t expect a good life Don t expect anything. Then If you get something it s a bonus. From, YOUTUBE Frank Zappa Philosophy

Awesome What a useless, nihilistic and premature philosophy. This view on humanity leads to nothing but self centeredness or some crazy shooting spree in your high school. Of course the powerful impose apathy upon us and wants to turn us into mindless consumers. This does not mean however that there aren t a lot of ordinary (and maybe somewhat deceived people) outthere who have strong opinions about what s happening in the world and actually want to see sth better than the status quo. Frank was a guy who was the complete opposite of what that generation of musicians and performers stood for, he was anti-stupidity, uncompromising as a person, musician and composer, a workaholic. who wanted to hear what his compositions sounded like and he hired musicians throughout his lifetime to do that, which covered almost all the genres known to man and if anybody got it, that was great and for the ones who didn't understand it, that was OK as well as they were not meant to It sounds to me like Zappa is paraphasing a quote of the writer Gertrude Stein back in the early 1920s. Stein was talking about the difference between Europe and America. According to Stein, Europe had mr. Zappa's. Stein wrote, "The difference between Europe and America is that in Europe everyone greets you with a straight face and only smiles when you do something good. In America, everyone greets you with a smile then must frown when you do something bad." Zappa is European.