It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
FRANK ZAPPAThe difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.
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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The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.
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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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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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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.
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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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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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One and one is eleven.
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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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Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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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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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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Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
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So many books, so little time.
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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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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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Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
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Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.
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Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
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Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
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To me absurdity is the only reality.
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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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