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Frank Zappa Quotes
Best Quotes by Frank Zappa (Top 10)
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Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
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Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
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Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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More Frank Zappa Quotes
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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.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll 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 of your TV set....
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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
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Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned—I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.
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There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!
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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)
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If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
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The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
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It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
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A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
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Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
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You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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Music is always a commentary on society.
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