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.
FRANK ZAPPAYou are what you is, you is what you am, you ain’t what you’re not. So see what you got?
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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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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Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.
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Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
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The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.
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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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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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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.
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Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
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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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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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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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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.
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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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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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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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One and one is eleven.
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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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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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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To me absurdity is the only reality.
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