Frank Zappa Quotes - Page 5

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• The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

  Frank Zappa

  Missing You, Emotional, Eyebrows

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• Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.

  Frank Zappa

  Feel Better, Sick, Sometimes

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• A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.

  Frank Zappa

  Want, Saying Nothing

  Song: Dummy up, 1974

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• Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, People, Millions

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Clouds, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

  Frank Zappa

  Powerful, Dirty, Fire

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• Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.

  Frank Zappa

  Rights, Mind, Mold

  Song: I'm the Slime, Album: Over-Nite Sensation

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• You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheism, Digging, Might

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• Jazz is the music of unemployment.

  Frank Zappa

  Unemployment, Jazz

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

  Frank Zappa

  Race, Tin Cans, Guy

  Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969.

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• Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Moving, Weaponry

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• The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can't talk about that.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, People, World

  "A Conversation With Frank Zappa" by Dave Rothman, in "Oui", April 1979.

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• We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

  Frank Zappa

  Crazy, Parent, Mental Health

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

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• Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity

  Frank Zappa

  Two, Stupidity, Hydrogen

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• [Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.

  Frank Zappa

  Issues, Rights, Smoking

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• who are the brain police?

  Frank Zappa

  Police, Brain

  Song: Who Are The Brain Police?

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• Watch out where the Huskies go
  And don't you eat that yellow snow

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Yellow, Snow

  Song: Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, 1974

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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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• Music is always a commentary on society.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Music Is, Commentary

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• Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

  Frank Zappa

  Vegetables, My Favorite, Tobacco

  Interview on the Today Show NBC, 1993.

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• So many books, so little time.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.

  Frank Zappa

  Differences, Government, Guy

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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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• 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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