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.
FRANK ZAPPAMusic is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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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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Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
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Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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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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Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
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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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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.
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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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So many books, so little time.
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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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The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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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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I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don’t.
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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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I don’t want to see any religious people in public office because they’re working for another boss.
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Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.
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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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Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up.
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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
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A composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.
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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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Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
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