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Frank Zappa Quotes
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Famous Frank Zappa Quotations
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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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- 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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- Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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- Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
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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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- 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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- I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy.
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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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- 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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- Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
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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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- Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
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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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