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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The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
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I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.
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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
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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.
