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Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

Frank Zappa

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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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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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. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.
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Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?
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