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Frank Zappa Inspirational Quotes (203)

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It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner
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You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.
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I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.
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The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.
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I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.
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Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.
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The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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I want a horny little Jewish princess.
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I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.
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In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.
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I have been monitoring your earthly broadcasts for many years.
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I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.
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Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
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I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and say I never inhaled. I did inhale. I liked tobacco a lot better.
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I want a girl that can swallow my pride.
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Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.
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Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.
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The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
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I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.
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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 ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.
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Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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