Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
FRANK ZAPPAThere 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.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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If we can’t be free at least we can be cheap.
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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.
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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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Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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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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Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
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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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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
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Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
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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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So many books, so little time.
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