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Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.
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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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If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.
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I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.
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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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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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You're baloney without the mayo.
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While your children are sleeping, your puppy is crappin'.
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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?
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.
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Very few people do covers of my tunes.
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A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.
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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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You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.
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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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Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.
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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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