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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrete works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist

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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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There will be no nuclear war. There's too much real estate involved.

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There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!

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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.

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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

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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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I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.

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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.

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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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The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced.

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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.

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