Music is always a commentary on society.
FRANK ZAPPAEnvironmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
More Frank Zappa Quotes
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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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If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.
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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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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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Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
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Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.
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All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
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If we can’t be free at least we can be cheap.
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Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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So many books, so little time.
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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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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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Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
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