Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 5

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• Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.

  Frank Zappa

  Feel Better, Sick, Sometimes

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• I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

  Frank Zappa

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  "No Commercial Potential: The Saga Of Frank Zappa". Book by David Walley, p. 4, 1972.

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• [Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.

  Frank Zappa

  Issues, Rights, Smoking

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• Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, People, Millions

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheism, Digging, Might

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• The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.

  Frank Zappa

  Real, Differences, Determined

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• You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

  Frank Zappa

  Beauty, Writing, Atheism

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• Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Clouds, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.

  Frank Zappa

  Rights, Mind, Mold

  Song: I'm the Slime, Album: Over-Nite Sensation

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• There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

  Frank Zappa

  Powerful, Dirty, Fire

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• The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Garden, Essence

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• Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Smell, Free Jazz

  Song: Be-Bop Tango, 1974

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• Watch out where the Huskies go
  And don't you eat that yellow snow

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Yellow, Snow

  Song: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, 1974

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• Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

  Frank Zappa

  Vegetables, My Favorite, Tobacco

  Interview on the Today Show NBC, 1993.

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• The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can't talk about that.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, People, World

  "A Conversation With Frank Zappa" by Dave Rothman, in "Oui", April 1979.

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• Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity

  Frank Zappa

  Two, Stupidity, Hydrogen

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• Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Moving, Weaponry

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• Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

  Frank Zappa

  Race, Tin Cans, Guy

  Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969.

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• who are the brain police?

  Frank Zappa

  Police, Brain

  Song: Who Are The Brain Police?

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• We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

  Frank Zappa

  Crazy, Parent, Mental Health

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Jazz is the music of unemployment.

  Frank Zappa

  Unemployment, Jazz

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.

  Frank Zappa

  Differences, Government, Guy

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• Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.

  Frank Zappa

  Looks, Checks, Bent

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Fire, Ice, Two

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

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• Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Writing, Artist

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