Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 2

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

  Frank Zappa

  Education, Witty, Stupid

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

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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

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• The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.

  Frank Zappa

  Dark, Years, Atheism

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• Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

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• It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Life, Rights

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• Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, Evil, Greed

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• I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

  Frank Zappa

  Honesty, People, Balance

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Time, Bills

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.

  Frank Zappa

  Nice, People, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.

  Frank Zappa

  Military, School, People

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• Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

  Frank Zappa

  Media, Guy, Politics

  Song: The Central Scrutinizer

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• You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Obnoxious, Prove It

  "A Conversation With Frank Zappa". "Oui" Interview with Dave Rothman, 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.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, Ideas, Apples

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• I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

  Frank Zappa

  Race, White, Racism

  Song: Trouble Every Day

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• We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!

  Frank Zappa

  Facts, Adults, Looks

  Source: afka.net

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• I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.

  Frank Zappa

  Believe, Destiny, Government

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• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.

  Frank Zappa

  Fire, Ice, Two

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

  Frank Zappa

  Progress, Deviance, Normality

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• My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Advice, Healthy

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• One and one is eleven.

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  Dense, Eleven

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• To me absurdity is the only reality

  Frank Zappa

  Reality, Absurdity

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• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupid, Humor

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, People, Office

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