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The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
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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. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.
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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.
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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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The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only "good guys" in it, or eating cottage cheese.
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra, as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
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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.
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I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content. One good believable song about some guy's girlfriend and how they broke up — a sincere one — is better than twenty albums of English rock that's ever been produced.
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Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow.
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Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black,
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white.
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I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set.
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After all, he wrote this book here, and in the book it says he made us all to be just like him! So if we're dumb, then God is dumb — and maybe even a little ugly on the side.
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There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
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Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.
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I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously … I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.
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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.
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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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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
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I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.
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Why should I smile when I'm sitting here with you?
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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.
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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
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I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.
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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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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
December 21, 1940
Died:
December 4, 1993
(aged 52)
Bio:
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, actor and filmmaker.
Known for:
Joe's Garage (1979)
Hot Rats (1969)
One Size Fits All (1975)
Over-Nite Sensation (1973)
Zoot Allures (1976)
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