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The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.
Frank Zappa
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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.
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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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Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport
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I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don't, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all seasons.
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So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.
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If you are home, and you got no place to go, and you want to, just blow yourself up ... Go ahead ... The drugs themselves ... There's a price for doing stuff to yourself.
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My guitar wants to kill your mama.
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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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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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Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.
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The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.
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I mean, if you want to hurt yourself, go ahead. It's like, if you want to jack off, go ahead, just don't 'spoo' on a public bus or something . Do whatever you want to do. Just don't get it in somebody else's face.
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Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?
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The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.
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Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.
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You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?
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It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
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Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.
Frank Zappa
Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.
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