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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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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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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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I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.
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Wowie zowie, love me do. Wowie zowie, and I'll love you, too.
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I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.
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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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They were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like Donovan fans.
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A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want.
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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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Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
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Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.
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If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?
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He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.
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Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.
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Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
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The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.
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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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Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport
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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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