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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

Frank Zappa

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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.
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The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.
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I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.
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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.
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In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.
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In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.
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They were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like Donovan fans.
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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 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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If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?
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You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?
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The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.
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Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.
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My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.
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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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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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Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
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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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