Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
FRANK ZAPPAWithout 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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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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Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
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One size does not fit all.
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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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Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
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The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.
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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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It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
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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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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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Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
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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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Don’t go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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So many books, so little time.
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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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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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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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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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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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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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