Frank Zappa

(55 votes)   Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

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(45 votes)   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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(32 votes)   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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(32 votes)   There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

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(30 votes)   The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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(29 votes)   Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

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(28 votes)   Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

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(27 votes)   Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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(27 votes)   Without deviation progress is not possible.

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(27 votes)   You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

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(26 votes)   The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

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(24 votes)   Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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(23 votes)   One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

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(20 votes)   No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

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