American - Musician | December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa
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Music is always a commentary on society.
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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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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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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 are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
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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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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
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