I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak.
The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week ontwo-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.
You must recognize that we train the people in our lives how to treat us.
When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.