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“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go
to the library.”
- Frank Zappa |
“So many books, so little time.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
- Frank Zappa |
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me
weird.”
- Frank Zappa |
“Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people
who can't talk, for people who can't read”
- Frank Zappa |
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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?”
- Frank Zappa |
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a
longer shelf life.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
- Frank Zappa |
“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.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”
- Frank Zappa |
“There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”
- Frank Zappa |
“Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as
opposed to the Bible? Who wins?”
- Frank Zappa |
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“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
- Frank Zappa |
“Writing about music is like
dancing about architecture.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly
enforced.”
- Frank Zappa |
“A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco
environment.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and
stuff.”
- Frank Zappa |
“If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll
murder you in your sleep.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so
powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon
hearing it.”
- Frank Zappa |
“In a fight between yourself and the world, always side with the
world.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.”
- Frank Zappa |
“Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance
smothered in balloons and ribbons.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“Modern Americans behave as if
intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.”
- Frank Zappa |
“Nobody looks good with brown
lipstick on.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial
complex.”
- Frank Zappa |
“The price of meat has just
gone up and your old lady has just gone down.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me
sleepy.”
- Frank Zappa |
“The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious
music is much worse.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“Drugs will turn you into your parents.”
- Frank Zappa |
“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting
air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with
somebody else's life.”
- Frank Zappa |
“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“Anything Anytime Anyplace For No
Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)”
- Frank Zappa |
“One size does not fit all.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.”
- Frank Zappa |
“Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is
potentially dangerous.”
- Frank Zappa |
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“I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get
cleaner?”
- Frank Zappa |
“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you
do something we'd all love one another.”
- Frank Zappa |
