Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 3

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• The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.

  Frank Zappa

  Nice, Kids, Talking

  "The Howard Stern Show", 1987.

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Writing, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, Ideas, Apples

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• Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

  Frank Zappa

  Hair, Long, Doe

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• A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

  Frank Zappa

  Wise, Philosophy, Men

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• It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

  Frank Zappa

  Long, Stupidity, Would Be

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, America, Land

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• We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!

  Frank Zappa

  Facts, Adults, Looks

  Source: afka.net

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• There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

  Frank Zappa

  Love, Music, Marriage

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• To me absurdity is the only reality

  Frank Zappa

  Reality, Absurdity

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• In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has - to put in mildly - a fatal design flaw.

  Frank Zappa

  Growing Up, Kids, Firsts

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

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• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.

  Frank Zappa

  Sports, Running, Growing Up

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui magazine, April, 1979.

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• I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Bullying, People

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

  Frank Zappa

  Depression, Bed, Mental Illness

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• The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Real, Humble

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart - incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.

  Frank Zappa

  Zoos, Smart, Stupidity

  Interview with Grace Slick on Rockplace, February 11, 1984.

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• A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, People, Drug

  Senate hearing on Porn Rock and the PMRC, 1985.

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• Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.

  Frank Zappa

  Looks, Brown, Positive Atheism

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• It's fairly obvious, since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United States -- You're just not gonna get it. It's a joke -- the people that you vote for, they're the next best thing to criminals. But of course they have money for advertising campaigns that make them look a little bit better than they actually are.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Littles, Voters

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• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.

  Frank Zappa

  Naughty, America, Car

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

  Frank Zappa

  Winning, People, Died

  Late Night Special BBC, 1993.

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupid, Humor

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Cute, Beautiful, People

  "Tinseltown Rebellion". Live album by Frank Zappa, May 17, 1981.

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• Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

  Frank Zappa

  Ignorance, America, Rough

  The Tonight Show, June 29, 1988.

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