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.
FRANK ZAPPAIf your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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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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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
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May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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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.
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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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Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
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There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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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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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 more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it’s going to bother you and then, the worse things get.
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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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The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich. That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.
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There are only two things to remember. Number one: Don’t Stop, and number two: Keep going!
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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
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All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
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A composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.
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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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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.
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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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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
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Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
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