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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

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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Bill Bunch Date Deadline Decoration Music Production
If we can’t be free at least we can be cheap.
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Cheap Freedom
Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
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Inspirational People Wrong
I don’t want to see any religious people in public office because they’re working for another boss.
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Boss Public Religious Work
The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.
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Determination Difference Estate Religion
Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.
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Democracy Millionaire Politics Republic
Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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Arrangement Beginning Inspirational Play Wrong
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
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Acknowledgement Crazy Improvement Mental Health Parents
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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Dirty Fire Hear Positive Powerful
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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Bet Death God Life Mess Name Reality Ugly
To me absurdity is the only reality.
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Adsurd Reality
Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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Favorite Funny Tabacco Vegetable
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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Communism People Stuff Work
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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Deliver Goodness Music Religion
So many books, so little time.
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Book One Liner Time
All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
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Beyond Children Control Poor System Unfortunate Victim
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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Happiness Music People Rich Smart
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Deviation Motivational Progress
Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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Drugs Parents
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
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Bore Deserve Life Listen Miserable Parents Shit Teacher
Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up.
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Inspirational Make Up
Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
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Air Environment Protection Vote
Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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Dead Funny Jazz Music Smell
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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Guitar Romantic
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Architecture Dance Music Writing
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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Artist Modern Music Song
One size does not fit all.
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One Liner Size Truth

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

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