Frank Zappa Quotes
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there’s no way you’re gonna find out what it means.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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My life is my message.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
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I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through. It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.
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Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
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So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there’s no way you’re gonna find out what it means.
