Frank Zappa Quotes

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Frank Zappa

Profession : Singer

Birth : December 21, 1940

Music is always a commentary on society.

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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

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No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

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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 there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

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Without deviation progress is not possible.

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You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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