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Frank Zappa
American
Musician
Born:
Dec 21
,
1940
Died:
Dec 4
,
1993
Music
Own
People
Something
Will
You
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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa
Stupidity
Building
Universe
Say
Claim
Plentiful
Some
More
Hydrogen
Because
Building Block
Block
Scientists
Than
Dispute
Basic
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa
Beer
You
Country
Unless
Airline
Kind
Weapons
Some
Football
Football Team
Least
Real
Very
Team
Helps
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Need
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa
You
Change
People
Will
Philosophical
Minds
Favorite
Only
Agree
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa
Work
Communism
People
Own
Stuff
Like
Because
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa
Music
Time
Must
Boring
Dates
Deadlines
Without
Bunch
Just
Which
Decorate
Production
Paid
Bills
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
Life
Stupidity
Universe
More
Hydrogen
Longer
Shelf
Shelf Life
Than
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa
Education
You
Library
College
Go
Get
Want
Laid
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa
Love
Music
You
Love Songs
Else
Something
More
Could
Songs
Make
Another
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
Art
Nothing
Out
Something
Making
Selling
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa
Nation
Randomly
States
Laws
Written
Badly
Enforced
United
United States
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank Zappa
You
Sometimes
Ugly
Enough
Say
Giraffe
Rely
Write
Always
Want
Whipped
Cream
Chord
Filled
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
People
Interviewing
Write
Journalism
Most
Talk
Read
Rock
Who
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank Zappa
Me
People
Other
Out
Never
Weird
Always
Who
Set
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank Zappa
Music
People
Bit
Know
Most
Came
Up
Them
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa
World
Ending
Fire
Other
Paperwork
Possibilities
Nostalgia
Ice
Necessary
Two
Imagine
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa
Musicians
Will
Forcing
Air
Composer
Guy
Around
His
Goes
Often
Molecules
Who
Assistance
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa
You
Design
Tell
Eyebrows
Exact
Give
Computer
Emotional
Missing
Mathematical
Story
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
Music
Type
Air
Something
Performance
Sculpture
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Frank Zappa
Own
Believe
Everybody
Virtue
Something
Fact
Support
Existence
Uses
Believes
Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa
Music
Society
Always
Commentary
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
Frank Zappa
Love
Will
No Love
Never
Sure
Years
Product
Found
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