Music is always a commentary on society.
FRANK ZAPPAStupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.
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Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
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Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up.
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Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.
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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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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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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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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 wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
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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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I don’t want to see any religious people in public office because they’re working for another boss.
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You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain’t what you’re not. So see what you got?
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Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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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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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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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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Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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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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Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
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Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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To me absurdity is the only reality.
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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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It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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One and one is eleven.
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I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.
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