Frank Zappa - Quodid

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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, songwriter, guitarist, conductor, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he additionally produced nearly all the 60-plus albums he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. His discography is characterized by nonconformity, improvisation, sonic experimentation, musical virtuosity and satire of American culture. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse musicians of the 20th century.

Quotes from Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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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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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you. A lot of people make that mistake, and forget how much value there is in raw intuition—and there's plenty of that in every child. They may not have verbal skills or manual skills yet, but that is no reason to treat them like they're inferior little lumps whose destiny it is to grow up to be inferior big lumps like you.

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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.