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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.


Frank Zappa

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FRANK ZAPPA I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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I'm obsessed and deranged.
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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.
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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...
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Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
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FRANK ZAPPA The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...
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FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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AHMET ZAPPA I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
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AHMET ZAPPA I collect things that just look retarded.
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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AHMET ZAPPA My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, ...
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA I don't care about a social life.
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.
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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.
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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...
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FRANK SINATRA The best revenge is massive success.
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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...
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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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