Frank Zappa quotes - page 3

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means. (Frank Zappa)
You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious. View quote
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To me, absurdity is the only reality. View quote
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The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon. View quote
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Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris? View quote
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Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There isn't anything weird about my music. View quote
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Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see which has people in it who believe a variety of different things. View quote
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Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. (Frank Zappa)
You say your life's a bum deal 'n yer up against the wall. Well, people, you ain't even got no deal at all. 'Cause what they do in Washington. They just takes care of Number One. An' Number One ain't you. You ain't even Number Two! View quote
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Every socialistic type of government... produces bad art, produces social inertia, produces really unhappy people, and it's more repressive than any other kind of government. View quote
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So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin' Hopin' for the best Even think I'll go to prayin' Every time I hear 'em sayin' That there's no way to delay That trouble comin' every day No way to delay That trouble comin' every day. View quote
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We're not talking light-hearted foolishness here - when we go for stupid we go for BIG STUPID - like people who shoot at you on the freeway, or the Rambos and Rambo-ettes who blow people away in shopping malls and fast-food restaurants with automatic weapons. View quote
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The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It's moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that's happened during the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe ... I really think that. ... When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very, very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun... View quote
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I've smoked ten marijuana cigarettes in my life, and probably the last time I had one near my face was twelve, fifteen years ago. And the reason I did was because, since I do smoke, people would say, "Here, smoke this, you'll get high." So I smoked it, and it gave me a sore throat and made me sleepy. And I must either presume that that's what high means, or something was wrong. But I've never had a positive result from smoking marijuana. It just wasn't my cup of tea. And I never used LSD, never used cocaine, never used heroin or any of that other stuff. View quote
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And it's the same across the nation Black and white discrimination Yellin' "You can't understand me!" 'N all that other jazz they hand me In the papers and TV and All that mass stupidity That seems to grow more every day Each time you hear some nitwit say He wants to go and do you in Because the color of your skin Just don't appeal to him (No matter if it's black or white) Because he's out for blood tonight. View quote
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I'm a conservative, and you might not like that, but I am, and the fact of the matter is, this bill that they're talking about in Maryland is stupid. View quote
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Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. View quote
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Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. (Frank Zappa)
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. View quote
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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? View quote
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Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on. View quote
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Don't eat the yellow snow. View quote
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