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Frank Zappa was an influential American musician, composer, music producer, guitarist, and singer. His musical style combined elements of rock, jazz, classical, and world music, making him an innovator in the music industry. Known for his unique musical talent and satirical lyrics, Zappa's work has had a profound impact on the development of music in the post-war era.

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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 ?”

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“Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.”

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“The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus.”

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“I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric - there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell.”

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“Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught! I understand in the case of Mr. Swaggart, that he claims that it was not multiple encounters with many prostitutes - apparently, only one sweet young thing. And he did tell Cal Thomas of the Moral Majority that the sex act itself was not fully consumated. However he did admit to doing something por-no-graphic with the girl. Let's use our imaginations, ladies and gentlemen.”

“I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.”

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“Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?”

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“The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.”

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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.”

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“The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?”

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“Information doesn't kill you.”

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

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“Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.”

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“The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.”

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“Well Mike, I'm abnormal.”

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“You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”

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“There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”

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“Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book 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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“Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.”

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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.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

About the Author

Born: December 21, 1940
Died: December 4, 1993
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 385

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