To me absurdity is the only reality.
FRANK ZAPPAA composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.
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Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
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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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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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The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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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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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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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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It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
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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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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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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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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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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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