So many books, so little time.
FRANK ZAPPAThere’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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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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Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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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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Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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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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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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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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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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I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.
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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 go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.
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There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
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A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
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May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
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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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All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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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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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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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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A composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.
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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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