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Rock Musician Inspirational Quotes (332)

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All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.
Frank Zappa
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
Freddie Mercury
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We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
Gary Wright
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I don't like telephones.
Marc Bolan
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I want fun now, life is here to enjoy, not to complicate and make difficult.
Marc Bolan
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Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport
Frank Zappa
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It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Freddie Mercury
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Every time I call my baby and ask to get a date, my boss says, no dice son, you gotta work late.
Eddie Cochran
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The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
Frank Zappa
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Shut Up and Play your Guitar.
Frank Zappa
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Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.
Frank Zappa
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I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.
Frank Zappa
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I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.
Frank Zappa
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Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?
Frank Zappa
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My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.
Frank Zappa
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The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'.
Frank Zappa
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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.
Frank Zappa
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The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.
Frank Zappa
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I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.
Freddie Mercury
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I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.
Frank Zappa
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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.
Frank Zappa
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The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.
Frank Zappa
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This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.
Frank Zappa
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The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
Freddie Mercury
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