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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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Frank Vincent Zappa
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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.
Frank Zappa
Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)
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I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.
Frank Zappa
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa
Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
Frank Zappa
Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.
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The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.
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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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Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
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Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.
Frank Zappa
My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.
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She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.
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Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
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No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank Zappa
I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.
Frank Zappa
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.
Frank Zappa
The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.
Frank Zappa
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
Frank Zappa