Frank Zappa Quotes
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
Quotes to Explore
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.
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She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.
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It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.
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If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
