Frank Zappa

Singer

1940-12-21

Quotes by Frank Zappa

• I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

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• The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

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• For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.

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• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

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

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• Information is not knowledge.Knowledge is not wisdom.Wisdom is not truth.Truth is not beauty.Beauty is not love.Love is not music.Music is THE BEST.

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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.

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

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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.

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• Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

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• I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.

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

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• Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

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• Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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• I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

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• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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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.

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• 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.

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• There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

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• Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.

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