# Favourite Frank Zappa quote, lyric **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929 "2008-03-11T04:49:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/21 "2008-03-11T14:47:06Z")
“Blow it out your ass, motorcycle man” and “Titties and beer!” ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/22 "2008-03-11T15:24:04Z")
FZ Quotation - “Jazz isn’t dead: it just smells funny.” And for lyric, I don’t think he ever again matched the stark realism of “The Slime” "I am gross and perverted, I’m obsessed and deranged I have existed for years, but very little has changed I’m the tool of the government and industry, too For I am destined to rule and regulate you I may be vile and pernicious, but you can’t look away I make you think I’m delicious with the stuff that I say I’m the best you can get - Have you guessed me yet? I’m the slime oozing out from your TV set!.." It was bang on true in 1973, and it’s truer than ever, now that we have more channels of zombification in 2008. Well, he’s got his own little piece of heaven now… ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/23 "2008-03-11T15:52:28Z")
My hair is getting good in the back! ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/24 "2008-03-11T16:13:46Z")
“But I have ze crystal ball!” …and later… “But I have ze Ring of Fire!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/25 "2008-03-11T16:29:16Z")
Two song choices here: > [@Don Pardo in I'm the Slime](#): > > “You will obey me while I lead you > And eat the garbage that I feed you! > Until the day that we don’t need you. > Don’t got for help! No one will heed you! > Your mind is totally controlled! > It has been stuffed into my mold! > And you will do as you are told, > Until the rights to you are sold!” > [@Flakes](#): > > “I’m a moron, and this is my wife > She’s frosting a cake with a paper knife” ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/26 "2008-03-11T16:45:55Z")
**mshar253** , here’s another vote for the Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation double pack–it has all the cool stuff, including my probably favorite overall Zappa song “Montana.” Sample lyric: "And then I get a cuppa coffee And give my foot a push Just me and the pygmy pony, over by the dental floss bush! And then I might just jump back on and ride like a cowboy into the dawn of Montana" And Apostrophe wins the overall favorite album in my book–there isn’t a track on it that isn’t top drawer and the way they all fit together is fabulous. Joe’s Garage is my second favorite overall. Just too much good weirdness to categorize! “Along a one celled Hammond organism underneath my shoes” “Whereupon I proceeded to take a mittenful of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people in this area but destined to replace the mudshark in your mythology–here it goes now, the circular motion, rub it!” “Dinah-Moe watched from the end of the bed with her lips just a-twitchin’ and her face gone red, some drool rollin’ down from the edge of her chin as she spied the condition her sister was in” “She had that Camarillo Brillo, I mean that Mendocino Beano” “The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!” Goddamn, I do love me some Zappa and it’s a damned shame he isn’t around any more. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/27 "2008-03-11T17:38:34Z")
Quote: “A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want.” Banter during Pygmy Twylyte on Roxy & Elsewhere > [@](#): > > Listen you chicks, now didn’t . . . didn’t you just say that you got off bein’ juked with a BABY OCTOPUS . . . and spewed upon with creamed corn . . . an’ that your harelipped dyke-o bass-playing girlfriend on the backseat had to have it with a Yoo-hoo bottle or she went apeshit . . . ?! Fillmore East Lyric: > [@](#): > > I’ve got the thing you need > I am endowed beyond your wildest > Clearasil spattered fantasies Bwana Dik, Fillmore East Lyric/quote: > [@](#): > > These girls wouldn’t let just anybody > Spew on their vital parts > They want a guy from a group with a > Big hit single in the charts What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are, Fillmore East ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/28 "2008-03-11T18:07:21Z")
Once, at a microphone sound check, I blurted out “Hi, I’m Jimmy Carl Black and I’m the Indian of the group.” He was interviewed by **High Times** back around 1980. The interviewer asked him what his parents thougth of his music. He replied “They stick their fingers in their ears. I don’t do what I do for parental approval.” ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/29 "2008-03-11T18:17:17Z")
[QUOTE=Gfactor] Bwana Dik, Fillmore East [/QUOTE] My favorite quote from Bwana Dik is: _My dick is a Harley You kick it to start_ hehheh ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/30 "2008-03-11T18:28:06Z")
I wish I could find the exact quote. After Clinton and Gore made the Democratic ticket in 1992, Zappa said something along the lines of, “I’d kiss Tipper Gore on the lips to get George Bush out of the White House.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/31 "2008-03-11T18:55:13Z")
From Dance Contest on Tinseltown Rebellion: “I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you’re out there and you’re cute, maybe you’re beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin’ — there’s more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.” More of a quote than a lyric, perhaps. While searching for the exact wording, I found [this great collection of Zappa quotes](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa). ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/32 "2008-03-11T19:25:32Z")
Favorite quote: “Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible” Favorite lyric: Republicans is fine if you’re a multi-millionaire Democrats is fair if all you own is what you wear Neither of 'ems really right 'cause neither of 'em care 'Bout that hot plate heaven, 'cause they ain’t been there from “Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel” ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/33 "2008-03-12T01:07:10Z")
[QUOTE=mshar253] Any suggestions for albums, along with the OP’s original point? [/QUOTE] Another vote for the combined **Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation** double package. Having those two on the same CD is just such ridiculously good value, there can’t be a better CD for the money anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/34 "2008-03-12T01:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=El Cid Viscoso] Aber beklecker nicht das sofa. Sofa! [/QUOTE] Fick mich, du miserabler hurensohn She was buns-up kneelin’ Buns up! She stripped away Her rancid poncho An’ laid out naked by the door We did it till we were un-concho An’ it was useless any more I proceeded to tell him his future, then As long as he was hanging around I said the price of meat has just gone up And your old lady has just gone down! Great googly moogly! Why does it hurt when I pee? I don’t want no doctor To stick no needle in me Why does it hurt when I pee? They got diseases Like you never seen Got a mystery blow-job Turn your peter green In France You are what you is You is what you am A cow don’t make ham ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/35 "2008-03-12T01:43:14Z")
Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes. I’m going to Montana soon; Gonna be a dental floss tycoon. If lyrics make people do things, how come we don’t love each other? ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/36 "2008-03-12T01:46:02Z")
How is it own none of his work? This will be remedied, and soon. To Congress: “The PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children, and promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with the interpretational and enforcemental problems inherent in the proposal’s design. It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this context, the PMRC’s demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation. (…) The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow “J” on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?” ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/37 "2008-03-12T02:04:31Z")
The quotes are well-represented here, so I’ll just go to lyrics: What’s the ugliest part of your body? What’s the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes I think it’s your mind. * * * DON’T COME IN ME, IN ME! DON’T COME IN ME, IN ME! … Sorry Madge, I couldn’t help it… doggone it! * * * Evelyn the dog, having undergone further modification, pondered the significance of short-person behavior and other highly ambient domains… “Arf!” she said. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/38 "2008-03-12T03:25:12Z")
Within the week, **Jerry Lewis** had hosted a telethon: > [@](#): > > Wah wah wah, nice lady! –from “Billy The Mountain”/_Just Another Band From L.A._ But you knew that already, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/39 "2008-03-12T03:28:14Z")
Heh–from Joe’s Garage: > [@CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER:](#): > > This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER…it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws > that haven’t been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of > you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be > performing which could eventually lead to The Death Penalty (or affect your parents’ > credit rating). Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things… > and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC! Our studies > have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being > drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever! Cruel and inhuman punishments are > being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won’t conflict with the Constitution > (which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate THE FUTURE). > I bring you now a special presentation to show what can happen to you if you choose > a career in MUSIC . . . The WHITE ZONE is for loading and unloading only. . . if you > have to load or unload, go to the WHITE ZONE… you 'll love it… it 's a way of life . . . > This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER…The WHITE ZONE is for loading and unloading > only… (etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929/40 "2008-03-12T03:47:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Electric Aunt Jemima > Goddess of Love > Khaki Maple Buckwheats > Frizzle on the stove > Queen of my heart > Please hear my plea > Electric Aunt Jemima > Cook a bunch for me [At YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5mBJKvnsFc&feature=related) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-frank-zappa-quote-lyric/440929.md?page=3)