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Very few people do covers of my tunes.

Frank Zappa

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Frank Zappa
Age: 52 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 21
Died: 1993
Died: December 4
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I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.
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Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.
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If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap
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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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Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.
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In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.
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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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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.
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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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Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
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Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.
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Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.
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Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.
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If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.
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Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?
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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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Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
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As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.
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Music is always a commentary on society.
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