Frank Zappa Quotes

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Everything begins with an idea.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.