Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 12

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• Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

  Frank Zappa

  Peanuts, Mentality

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Mean, Listening, Way

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• Some people... some people like cupcakes
  Exclusively, while myself, I say,
  There is naught nor ought there be nothing
  So exalted on the face of god's grey
  Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

  Frank Zappa

  Cupcakes, People, Earth

  Song: Muffin Man, Album: Bongo Fury

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• Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, School, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• 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.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, Apples, Tree

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• My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

  Frank Zappa

  Education, Teacher, English Teacher

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• I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Book, Learning

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  School, Catholic, Penguins

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• I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well, 99 percent of on the songs on the radio deal with the topic of love and we use the term loosely. So, kids have heard love, love, love, love ... the minute they turn on the radio. Do you see any kids doing love? I see them doing crack ... but not love. So, it's bullshit!

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Kids, Mean

  Source: afka.net

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• All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

  Frank Zappa

  Cheesy, Politics, Littles

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• I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Children, Growing Up

  Appearance on CBS Morning News, September 18, 1985.

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• He likes to flirt with all the boys in the class.

  Frank Zappa

  Flirting, Boys, Class

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• You're baloney without the mayo.

  Frank Zappa

  Friendship, Baloney

  Song: The Untouchables

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• Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheism, Abnormal, Wells

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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?

  Frank Zappa

  What If, Looks, Heat

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• Unbind your mind, there is no time.

  Frank Zappa

  Philosophy, Mind

  Song: Absolutely Free

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• She is an office girl, her name is Betty. Her favorite group is Helen Reddy.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Names, Office

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• I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?

  Frank Zappa

  White, House, President

  Source: afka.net

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Suits, Jogging

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• Is this something new, having people stomp on you? Is it what I need to do for your pleasure?

  Frank Zappa

  People, Needs, Violence

  Song: Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy

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• Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.

  Frank Zappa

  Utensils, Cosmic

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• 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

  Revenge, Eye, Yellow

  Song: Nanook Rubs It

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• Wisdom is not the domain of the Wiz.

  Frank Zappa

  Wiz, Domain, Adages

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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

  Religious, Writing, Law

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Humorous, Kids

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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