Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPAWe 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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We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
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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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I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.
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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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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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Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.
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Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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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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The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else’s life.
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.
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Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up.
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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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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If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.
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All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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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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Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.
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It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
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One and one is eleven.
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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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Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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