524 Quotes by Frank Zappa

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    I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

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    If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

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    The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

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    Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that.

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