Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 6

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• I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don't, watch football and drink beer, jog, go to discos and so forth. I never claimed to be a man for all seasons.

  Frank Zappa

  Football, Writing, Beer

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Dental Floss, Teeth

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Writing, Law, People

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

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• Music is always a commentary on society.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Music Is, Commentary

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• A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Fragments, Composer

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

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• I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Drug, Use

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• Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Sports, Clouds

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• . . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

  Frank Zappa

  Government, Movement, Behinds

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• So many books, so little time.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The thing about drugs is this ... the Libertarians kind of have the right idea on this: Basically, their theory is that you own your own body, and the government should get out of your face. But, you also do not have the right to harm other people or to impinge on their rights or space. So, let's apply that to drugs . If you want to get wrecked, and you could afford it, and you have a place to do it where the results of your behavior can't harm another person, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be allowed to do it.

  Frank Zappa

  Space, Rights, Government

  Source: afka.net

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• On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Order, Levels

  Liner notes for the album "Freak Out!", June 27, 1966.

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• Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

  Frank Zappa

  Shoes, Pairs, Pair Of Shoes

  Song: Beauty Knows No Pain, Album: You Are What You Is

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• I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.

  Frank Zappa

  Devil, Satanic, Satanism

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• The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

  Frank Zappa

  Stupid, Design, Lines

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Music Is

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• Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

  Frank Zappa

  Motivational, Senior, Educational

  "Song: "Hungry Freaks Daddy" ("Freak Out!")". June 27, 1966.

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• The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business

  Frank Zappa

  Business, Guy, Causes

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• Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes
  America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we
  have tolerated the last eight years?

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, Eight, Years

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• Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

  Frank Zappa

  Reading, Writing, Mean

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• The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?

  Frank Zappa

  Christian, Children, Doors

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don't think they know. And I can't see any authority on the horizon that's got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.

  Frank Zappa

  Vegetables, People, Kingdoms

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• Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• Don't forget to vote.

  Frank Zappa

  Vote, Forget

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “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” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

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