524 Quotes by Frank Zappa

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    Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it’s your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you’re really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.

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    You’ve got to be digging it while it’s happening ’cause it just might be a one shot deal.

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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.

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    Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There’s a world, you see which has people in it who believe a variety of different things.

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    I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.

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    There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it’s going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

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    The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else’s life.

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    I think that if a person doesn’t feel cynical then they’re out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization – you can’t just swallow it whole.

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