Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Sports, Running, Growing Up

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

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Mean, Ideas

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

  Frank Zappa

  Air, Law, Water

  Song: The Central Scrutinizer

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• As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Smart, Believe

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• It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

  Frank Zappa

  Long, Stupidity, Would Be

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

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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?

  Frank Zappa

  Hair, Long, Doe

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• In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has - to put in mildly - a fatal design flaw.

  Frank Zappa

  Growing Up, Kids, Firsts

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

  Frank Zappa

  Want, Explaining

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• Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

  Frank Zappa

  Depression, Bed, Mental Illness

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• The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.

  Frank Zappa

  Nice, Kids, Talking

  "The Howard Stern Show", 1987.

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• You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.

  Frank Zappa

  Names, Ugly, Ends

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart - incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.

  Frank Zappa

  Zoos, Smart, Stupidity

  Interview with Grace Slick on Rockplace, February 11, 1984.

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• A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

  Frank Zappa

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

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• A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, People, Drug

  Senate hearing on Porn Rock and the PMRC, 1985.

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• America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, America, Land

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• The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Real, Humble

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Writing, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Bullying, People

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

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  Love, Music, Marriage

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• It's fairly obvious, since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United States -- You're just not gonna get it. It's a joke -- the people that you vote for, they're the next best thing to criminals. But of course they have money for advertising campaigns that make them look a little bit better than they actually are.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Littles, Voters

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• Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.

  Frank Zappa

  Looks, Brown, Positive Atheism

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.

  Frank Zappa

  Naughty, America, Car

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

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• Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

  Frank Zappa

  Winning, People, Died

  Late Night Special BBC, 1993.

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• Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, America, Rough

  The Tonight Show, June 29, 1988.

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