Frank Zappa Quotes

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
FRANK ZAPPA

Beware Enemy Fish People
Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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Favorite Funny Tabacco Vegetable
Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
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Art Music Physical
I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don’t.
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Explanation Life Personality Spend
Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.
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Charm Ignorance Stupidity
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
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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Guitar Romantic
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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Hydrogen Life Stupidity Universe
So many books, so little time.
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Book One Liner Time
May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
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Face Kiss Life Shit Struggle
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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Democracy Millionaire Politics Republic
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
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
Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear.
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Artist Modern Music Song
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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Kids Positive Property
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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Happiness Music People Rich Smart
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
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Art Close Meet Science Weapon
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
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
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
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Communism People Stuff Work
To me absurdity is the only reality.
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Adsurd Reality
There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
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Atheist Bend Difference Knee
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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Deep Inspirational Mind Parachute Sarcastic
Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.
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Dead Funny Jazz Music Smell
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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Bore Deserve Life Listen Miserable Parents Shit Teacher
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
The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.
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Lady Meat Old Price

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