Music is always a commentary on society.
FRANK ZAPPACommunism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
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If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.
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Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
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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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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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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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Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear.
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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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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.
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Don’t go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.
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A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
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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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