Frank Zappa Quotes

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• A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

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• Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

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  Music Is, Goods

  "10 Awesome Music Documentaries", whatculture.com.

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• The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

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  Wall, Moving, Tables And Chairs

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• The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.

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  Neutrons, Moron, Proton

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• Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.

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  Government, Democracy, Tests

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  There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!

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  Two, Numbers, Remember

  Frank Zappa (2011). “Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All (Songbook)”, p.6, Hal Leonard Corporation

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  Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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  Positive, Inspiring, Science

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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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  Funny Life, Important, Life Is

  "The Howard Stern Show", 1987.

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• Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

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  Atheist, Reality, Religion

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• I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I'm the best you can get... have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set.

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  Thinking, Government, Years

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• Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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  Branches, Politics, Entertainment

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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  Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

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  Love, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Packard Goose

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• It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

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  Knowledge, Harder, Knows

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• Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Doe

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

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  Atheist, Bending Down, Differences

  Song: Heavenly Bank Account

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• Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

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  Modern, Deformity, Behave

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• lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.

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  Sports, Running, Growing Up

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui magazine, April, 1979.

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• The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

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  Smart, Ideas, Apples

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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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  Philosophical, Agreement, People

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• It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.

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  Regret, Remember

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• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

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• There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

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  Education, Witty, Stupid

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• Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.

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  Care, Politics, Causes

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• Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

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  Business, People, Political

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

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• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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  Funny, Education, Sex

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