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Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
Frank Zappa
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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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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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Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.
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Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?
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Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.
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Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music.
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