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.
FRANK ZAPPAIf you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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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 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 could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
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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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If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.
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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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Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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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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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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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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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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All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
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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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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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