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Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa
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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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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.
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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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You know, people are basically shitty
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It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity
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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.
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Shut Up and Play your Guitar.
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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.
Frank Zappa
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
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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.
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Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
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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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Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.
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If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.
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If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.
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Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.
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Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.
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I mean, if you want to hurt yourself, go ahead. It's like, if you want to jack off, go ahead, just don't 'spoo' on a public bus or something . Do whatever you want to do. Just don't get it in somebody else's face.
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Am I a boy or a lady, I don't know which?
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Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.
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Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
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