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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?

Frank Zappa

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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Beauty Information Knowledge Love Music Truth Wisdom
Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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Arrangement Beginning Inspirational Play Wrong
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
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Judgment Knowledge Ugly
Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.
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Charm Ignorance Stupidity
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
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Balloon Greed Ignorance Republic Ribbon
The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.
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Determination Difference Estate Religion
Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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Dead Funny Jazz Music Smell
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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Business Coverage Guy Maintain Media Power
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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Artist Force Molecule Music Suspect
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.
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Freedom Illusion Profit
Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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Favorite Funny Tabacco Vegetable
Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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Brown Lipstick Make Up
All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
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Beyond Children Control Poor System Unfortunate Victim
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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Black White
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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Adult Fact Freedom Pretend Society
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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Bet Death God Life Mess Name Reality Ugly
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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People Weird
The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.
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Space Universe
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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Bill Bunch Date Deadline Decoration Music Production
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Art Sell
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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Computer Emotional Mathematics Story
One and one is eleven.
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Inspirational One Liner
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Architecture Dance Music Writing
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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Dirty Fire Hear Positive Powerful
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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Advice Children Happiness Health
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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Asshole Chemical Compound Drugs People
To me absurdity is the only reality.
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Adsurd Reality

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