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If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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I think that if you use the so-called strong words you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.
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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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Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
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Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.
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The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
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I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.
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Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.
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This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.
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Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.
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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'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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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
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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.
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Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.
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The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.
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You know, people are basically shitty
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Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.
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Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.
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Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.
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I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.
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