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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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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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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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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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If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.
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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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Michael is Janet and Janet is Michael.
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Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.
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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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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.
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If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.
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To me absurdity is the only reality
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Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.
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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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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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The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
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I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.
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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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They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.
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Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.
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Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.
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