Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
FRANK ZAPPAPower 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.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.
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You can bet everything will come to an end. It’s going to be ugly and it’s going to be a mess, and it’s going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.
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One size does not fit all.
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To me absurdity is the only reality.
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Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
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Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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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 universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.
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Don’t go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.
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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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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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I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.
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Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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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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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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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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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 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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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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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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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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The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
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I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don’t.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up.
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