Frank Zappa Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
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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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“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
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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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“It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.”
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“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
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“Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.”
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“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
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“There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
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“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
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“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
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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 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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“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
-- Frank ZappaSource : Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster
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“Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?”
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“The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.”
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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
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“Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”
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“lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.”
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“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.”
-- Frank ZappaSource : Song: Packard Goose
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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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“If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap”
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“You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.”
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“A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.”
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“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
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“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”
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“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.”
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“It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”
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“The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.”
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