Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 8

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• What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.

  Frank Zappa

  Depends

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• Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there's going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.

  Frank Zappa

  Dirty, Opposites, Sky

  Source: afka.net

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• The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.

  Frank Zappa

  Numbers, Air, Play

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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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• This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.

  Frank Zappa

  Friendship, Song, Dumb

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• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

  Frank Zappa

  Change, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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

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• I think that if you use the so-called "strong words" you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

  Frank Zappa

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Crossfire" on CNN, 1986.

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• I never have no trouble with my rubber girl.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Rubber, Trouble

  Song: Little Rubber Girl

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• Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.

  Frank Zappa

  Light, Guitar, Ovation

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Political, Drug, Moral

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

  Frank Zappa

  Drug, Trying, Conversation

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• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Music, People

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• Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

  Frank Zappa

  Lying, Honey, Pants

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• The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus.

  Frank Zappa

  Blow, Atheism, Bonus

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• Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music.

  Frank Zappa

  Jewels, Differences, Listening

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and roll records. Most of the people making these records do it because it is a business, and if someone says, "You can't do this", they won't complain. They'll just keep making records, but they'll get blander and blander. There'll still be rock and roll, but compared to what it really could be or ought to be, I don't think it'll be all that terrific.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, Rocks

  Source: afka.net

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• One size does not fit all.

  Frank Zappa

  Doe, Size, Fit

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• You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

  Frank Zappa

  Ham, Cows, Adages

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• I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

  Frank Zappa

  Writing, People, Albums

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• All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

  Frank Zappa

  Class, Amusement, Care

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

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• I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.

  Frank Zappa

  Love, Valentines Day, Thinking

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.

  Frank Zappa

  Believe, Stupidity, Hydrogen

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• Asked random questions about the First Amendment and how they would like to have it applied, if you believe in polls at all, the average American wants no part of it. But if you ask, 'What if we threw the Constitution away tomorrow?' the answer is 'No, that would be bad!' But living under the Constitution is another story altogether.

  Frank Zappa

  Believe, Average, What If

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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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• Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

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

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