The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It's moving America toward a fascist theocracy. (CNN's Crossfire Show in the year 1986)
Frank Zappa
Born: December 21, 1940 Died: December 4, 1993
Frank Vincent Zappa (21 December 1940 – 4 December 1993) was an American musician, composer and satirist.
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Alternative Names for Frank Zappa
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- Frank Vincent Zappa (English (en))
"I feel that if you live life in pursuit of 'certification,' 'appreciation’, or ‘compensation' in any form from your parents, you're making a big mistake. The sooner you can say, “Okay, they're them and I'm me, and let's make the best of it," the better off you're going to be.
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
I believe that, to a certain extent, kids get weird because their parents made them weird. Parents have more to do with making their children weird than TV or rock and roll records.
The only other thing that makes them weirder than TV and parents is religion and drugs.
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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.
"A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
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.
"Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand."
One size does not fit all.
Music is the best.
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
Some people... SOME PEOPLE like cupcakes better (but) I for one, could care LESS for them!
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.
there's more stupidity in the universe than there are hydrogen atoms, and it has a longer shelf life