Moon Unit Zappa famous quotes

07-18-2025

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Thinking
I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Thinking #Pathetic
I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Crazy #House #Ephemeral
The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Fun #Ideas #Licking
I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Acne #Miserable #Bedroom
Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Book #Experience #Add
I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Mother #Morning #Night
I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Dark #Thinking #Views
I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Song #Writing #Perfect
It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Simple #Enough #Should
I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Names #Legacy #Want
I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Too Much #Grew #Grew Up
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Mother #Teacher #School
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Fame
I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Garden #Men #Tree
We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Growing Up #Two #Water
I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#New Relationship
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Age #World #Remember
Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Matter #Flaws #Findings
Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Jobs #Accidents
How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Father #Shoes #Clothes
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Dad #Long #Black

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