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BILL HADER People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MORE I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want...
WALT DISNEY Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do ...
CHELSEA CAIN I've been through hundreds of people working for us because I fancy them all - there is something wr...
HUGH GRANT People dont see you for what you think, they see you for what you say
SIMPLETON In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, '...
H. R. MCMASTER There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted...
MICHAEL BUBLE President Kennedy loved the entertainment world, ... We were asking him -- he was newly in office --...
ANGIE DICKINSON In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high...
RICHARD V. ALLEN For parents that are very firm in their religious beliefs, I don't see any problem with that.
KATHERINE GREEN Mine's public because I wouldn't write anything I didn't want people to read.
DANIELLE TREECE I wasn't used to having a boss kick in my office door and stand there screaming at me at the top of ...
EUGENE FLOOD JR I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of,...
SIMON COWELL I don't see myself in any way in elective office.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE She has not yet been able to establish that she can mount any kind of credible candidacy for any pub...
CHARLIE KING I ran for public office to do something good.
DOUG DUCEY [Others do not want to touch it, including Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the committee's ranking Demo...
JOHN CORNYN [Others do not want to touch it, including Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), the committee's ranking Democra...
JOHN CORNYN People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public offi...
DAVID CONE I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true...
NAFTALI BENNETT people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.
BEN AFFLECK Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office befo...
HERMAN CAIN I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public off...
MARK MCKINNON Our attorney general's office has objected to role because they are assigned to represent various pu...
CHARLOTTE BERGERON Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same ri...
ERNEST ISTOOK I really don't want to comment about that at this point. Until he signs with us, I don't see any nee...
IVAN GAZIDIS I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.
NICOLA STURGEON It's going to be very difficult seeing him in a different uniform, to be honest with you. We didn't ...
JASON VARITEK I would imagine that a lot of these downloads are going to be people who are talking about a particu...
GREG DANIELS You don't want confrontation - you want your boss to see you as an up-and-comer,
MICHAEL FARR I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like r...
LORRAINE BRACCO Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One of biggest drivers in commitment to the company is trust in senior management. You may like your...
ILENE GOCHMAN We want the public to see it for themselves.
ANDY NOTA I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
HERBERT HOOVER You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man
JEANNETTE WALLS Start working. Meet your responsibility, because you still have time left in office.
ANDRES OBRADOR Start working. Meet your responsibility, because you still have time left in office.
ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.
CHANEL IMAN I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities
of which must be used as absolutel...
DORMAN BRIDGMAN EATON Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my...
DORIAN MISSICK As soon as the time machine is invented, all religious people should be sent back in time, where the...
JASON MENEZES I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another.
BRUCE ALSTON Eyes are on you when you do go out in the public, and I want to minimize that. I just try to be with...
CHAD HENNE Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering h...
ERNESTO SáBATO You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
FELIX DENNIS I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four y...
CLINT EASTWOOD Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or compa...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or...
CHARLES BABBAGE Any organization who wants to sponsor this program can. I know in other counties where the local ext...
DEBBIE PLEIMLING It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used...
RONNIE WOOD I dont want the kind of love thats in movies, I want my own kind,
LYNDSEY ANN-MARIE SHEPARD Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signat...
BRIAN ENO I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm no...
BIRCH BAYH Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
CARINE ROITFELD It's another set of eyes, because we are all working together. We're not leaving it up to any single...
CANDACE MILLINGTON I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believ...
FRANK ZAPPA I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the...
DAVE GOLDBERG If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
VICTOR HUGO Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones...
IAN WILLIAMSON Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON But what I will challenge in any stories I see is any idea that we didn't want to help people. We ce...
KAREN HUGHES Our purpose is to be the sword and shield for people of faith ... to defend and protect Christians a...
THOMAS MORE O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g...
RUSSELL HOBAN My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post of...
LLOYD BLANKFEIN I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I starte...
BARBARA CORCORAN To me, this is just a survey of people who don't want to pay for health care and want someone else t...
DEVON HERRICK When you see a team more often, and the players see you more often, you build up credibility, ... Bu...
NATIONAL LEAGUE When Pansy decided to retire, I knew I wanted to step into her shoes and I very much enjoy the work ...
DONNA BURNS I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.
BILL HICKS I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn'...
JIM WOODRING Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I belie...
AGNES MACPHAIL Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.
SARAH DESSEN I told Frank I want to finish the game,
LIVAN HERNANDEZ You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the peo...
BRUNO DUMONT theyre missing whole streets.
SAM WRIGHT There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice ...
MARK MCKINNON We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
FRANK ZAPPA Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something...
FRANK ZAPPA The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, ...
FRANK ZAPPA Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPA Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
FRANK ZAPPA It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: on...
FRANK ZAPPA Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can...
FRANK ZAPPA Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he need...
FRANK ZAPPA The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...
FRANK ZAPPA So many books, so little time.
FRANK ZAPPA Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
FRANK ZAPPA If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher,...
FRANK ZAPPA A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
FRANK ZAPPA Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed and permanently set.
FRANK ZAPPA Out of my mind! Back in five minutes.
FRANK ZAPPA Always follow your heart, but remember to bring your brain along.
FRANK ZAPPA A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs tr...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind ...
FRANK ZAPPA A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace...
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who c...
FRANK ZAPPA Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind o...
FRANK ZAPPA Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny
FRANK ZAPPA Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't re...
FRANK ZAPPA In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
FRANK ZAPPA Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
FRANK ZAPPA Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPA No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock...
FRANK ZAPPA It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities...
FRANK ZAPPA Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...
FRANK ZAPPA If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
FRANK ZAPPA Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going ...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to...
FRANK ZAPPA A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the a...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kin...
FRANK ZAPPA Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...
FRANK ZAPPA Without deviation progress is not possible.
FRANK ZAPPA If we were the Monkees, we'd be ready by now.
FRANK ZAPPA Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, ...
FRANK ZAPPA Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...
FRANK ZAPPA Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something,...
FRANK ZAPPA There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one...
FRANK ZAPPA Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon
FRANK ZAPPA Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner
FRANK ZAPPA The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, ...
FRANK ZAPPA All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for peop...
FRANK ZAPPA There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love...
FRANK ZAPPA I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out ther...
FRANK ZAPPA Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
FRANK ZAPPA The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable.
FRANK ZAPPA Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true.
FRANK ZAPPA If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine- but to hang a...
FRANK ZAPPA No, I don't think people really give a shit about that (meeting one's maker) unless they're complete...
FRANK ZAPPA If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state
FRANK ZAPPA Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f...
FRANK ZAPPA I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA Those Jesus freaks, well they're friendly but, the shit they believe has got their minds all shut
FRANK ZAPPA Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not
FRANK ZAPPA Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on
FRANK ZAPPA Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't re...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA In a fight between you and the world, pick the world
FRANK ZAPPA I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believ...
FRANK ZAPPA The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but ...
FRANK ZAPPA The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own
FRANK ZAPPA Do you love it - do you hate it? There it is the way you made it
FRANK ZAPPA too expensive and too violent.
FRANK ZAPPA Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, ...
FRANK ZAPPA The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place ...
FRANK ZAPPA Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable but I can easily understand why a person could...
FRANK ZAPPA People, wake up Figure it out Religious fanatics Around and about The Court House, The State House, ...
FRANK ZAPPA Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he need...
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk
FRANK ZAPPA Music is always a commentary on society.
FRANK ZAPPA I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agre...
FRANK ZAPPA If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep
FRANK ZAPPA I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice...
FRANK ZAPPA It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects ...
FRANK ZAPPA Anything, Any time, Anywhere - for no Reason at All.
FRANK ZAPPA The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively ...
FRANK ZAPPA The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tabl...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rel...
FRANK ZAPPA I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if y...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agre...
FRANK ZAPPA Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind o...
FRANK ZAPPA There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the...
FRANK ZAPPA Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
FRANK ZAPPA I'm vile and perverted.
I'm obsessed and deranged.
I've existed for years but very little...
FRANK ZAPPA Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
FRANK ZAPPA There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
FRANK ZAPPA Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
FRANK ZAPPA My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f...
FRANK ZAPPA The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the po...
FRANK ZAPPA It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
FRANK ZAPPA Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget ab...
FRANK ZAPPA Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think,...
FRANK ZAPPA Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
FRANK ZAPPA Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is ...
FRANK ZAPPA Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
FRANK ZAPPA A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.
FRANK ZAPPA May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
FRANK ZAPPA I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
FRANK ZAPPA I detest love lyrics. I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that pe...
FRANK ZAPPA For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywh...
FRANK ZAPPA The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...
FRANK ZAPPA The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everythin...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of...
FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th...
AHMET ZAPPA The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't comm...
AHMET ZAPPA I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
AHMET ZAPPA I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are ...
AHMET ZAPPA I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
AHMET ZAPPA I collect things that just look retarded.
AHMET ZAPPA All the drawings are mine. Originally, the idea I sold to Random House was an illustrated recipe boo...
AHMET ZAPPA I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off...
AHMET ZAPPA About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for a...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music becaus...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those ...
AHMET ZAPPA I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but thin...
AHMET ZAPPA The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do w...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task ...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got ...
AHMET ZAPPA I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they h...
AHMET ZAPPA I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
AHMET ZAPPA At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school wa...
AHMET ZAPPA I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actuall...
AHMET ZAPPA The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't ...
AHMET ZAPPA My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, ...
AHMET ZAPPA Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously goo...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musician...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I don't care about a social life.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and j...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melo...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something lik...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textur...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music ...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing mus...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and som...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybo...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long s...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA Gag me with a spoon!
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked ...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make brea...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
FRANK IERO I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I...
FRANK SINATRA The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou...
ZE FRANK I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ...
ZE FRANK We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
ZE FRANK For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
ZE FRANK If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
ZE FRANK I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
ZE FRANK YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
ZE FRANK I'm fascinated by simple joy.
ZE FRANK We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
ZE FRANK What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
ZE FRANK I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
ZE FRANK I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
ZE FRANK In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
ZE FRANK Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
ZE FRANK Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
ZE FRANK Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
ZE FRANK The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
ZE FRANK When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
ZE FRANK On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
ZE FRANK I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
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