Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
FRANK ZAPPAWithout music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!
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You can bet everything will come to an end. It’s going to be ugly and it’s going to be a mess, and it’s going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.
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The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich. That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.
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Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
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Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
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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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The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.
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Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.
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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.
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It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
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Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain’t what you’re not. So see what you got?
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One size does not fit all.
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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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The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it’s going to bother you and then, the worse things get.
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