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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.


Frank Zappa

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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 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.
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but thin...
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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.
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA I don't care about a social life.
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and j...
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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.
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita...
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
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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.
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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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