Frank Zappa Quotes

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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Believe Existence Fact Support Virtue
Drugs will turn you into your parents.
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Drugs Parents
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
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Atheist Life Reality
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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Deliver Goodness Music Religion
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
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College Education Laid Library
Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up.
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Inspirational Make Up
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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Branch Entertainment Industry Politics
Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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Brown Lipstick Make Up
Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.
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Air Environment Protection Vote
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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Bother Escape Horrible Inspirational
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
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Amount Atheist Difference Estate Religion
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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Love Music Song
A composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.
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Compose Fragment Involvement Time
Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.
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Healing Inspirational Sick
Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
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Beauty Die Shoes
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Architecture Dance Music Writing
Don’t go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.
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Bed Crazy Sex
The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.
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Determination Difference Estate Religion
If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.
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Children Lame Murder Sleep
Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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Arrangement Beginning Inspirational Play Wrong
One size does not fit all.
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One Liner Size Truth
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
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Judgment Knowledge Ugly
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.
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Freedom Illusion Profit
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Deviation Motivational Progress
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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Be Yourself Believe
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Art Sell
All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
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Beyond Children Control Poor System Unfortunate Victim

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