Frank Zappa Quotes
30 Frank Zappa quotes:
"The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made."
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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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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds."
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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
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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 that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
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"It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity"
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"Music is always a commentary on society."
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"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."
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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."
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"I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity."
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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."
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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."
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"Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not"
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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."
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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."
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"Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny"
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"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."
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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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"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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"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."
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