Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
FRANK ZAPPATo me absurdity is the only reality.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.
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Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
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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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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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Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
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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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Don’t go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.
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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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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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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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Music is always a commentary on society.
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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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The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.
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Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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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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