Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 7

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• Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

  Frank Zappa

  Work, Moving, Dental Floss

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• The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Drama, Guitar

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• Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, School, Church

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

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• Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

  Frank Zappa

  Believe, Support, Use

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• Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I like it. Hear those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along with. I like those notes very, very much. Give me a beat. Not a fancy one. Give me a GOOD BEAT -- something I can dance to. It has to go boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will hate it very, very much. Also, I want it right away -- and then, write me some more songs like that -- over and over and over again, because I'm really into music.

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Hate, Writing

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• The problem with drugs is that most of the people that use the drugs, use it as a license to be an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Drug Use, People, Problem

  Source: afka.net

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• Information doesn't kill you.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheism, Information, Positive Atheism

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• If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

  Frank Zappa

  Guitar, Take Me, Picks

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• Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?

  Frank Zappa

  Yuppies, People, Hatred

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• Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Art, Believe

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

  Frank Zappa

  Player, Records, Dense

  Song: A Little Green Rosetta

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• I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Term, Suspects

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Art, States

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• Ram it up your poop chute.

  Frank Zappa

  Poop, Rams

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• It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

  Frank Zappa

  Share, Torment, Despicable

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• In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

  Frank Zappa

  Order, Passing, Norm

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• My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

  Frank Zappa

  Honesty, Balls, Pairs

  Song: Why Does It Hurt When I Pee ?

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• The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!

  Frank Zappa

  Biscuits, Crux

  Song: Stink-Foot, 1974

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• Shut Up and Play your Guitar.

  Frank Zappa

  Guitar, Play, Shut Up

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• He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

  Frank Zappa

  Phones, Dating, Car

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• If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good - and CARES about any of it - to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Book, Love You

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• One size does not fit all.

  Frank Zappa

  Doe, Size, Fit

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• The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

  Frank Zappa

  Musical, Sound, Radio

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• Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

  Frank Zappa

  Guitar, Feelings

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• Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Writing, School

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