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Music is always a commentary on society.

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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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Frank Vincent Zappa
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Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
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Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.
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There is no hell, there's only France
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Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
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Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.
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The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.
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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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Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music.
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What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.
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If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.
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My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.
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I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.
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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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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
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Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.
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Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.
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Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)
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Unbind your mind, there is no time.
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I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.
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