Frank Zappa Quotes
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director.
(1940 - 1993)
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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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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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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, uses that something to support their own existence.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
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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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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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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
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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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Music is always a commentary on society.
[Music]
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
[Music]
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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.
[Change]
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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.
[Change]
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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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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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 United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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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.
[Music]
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