Frank Zappa

(382 votes)   A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

Frank Zappa
1940-, American Rock Musician

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(337 votes)   Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''

Frank Zappa
1940-, American Rock Musician

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(310 votes)   The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Frank Zappa
1940-, American Rock Musician

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(208 votes)   Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

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(207 votes)   If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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(206 votes)   Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

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(205 votes)   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.

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(197 votes)   Music is always a commentary on society.

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(196 votes)   Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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(195 votes)   I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

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(192 votes)   Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

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(189 votes)   All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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(187 votes)   Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

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(186 votes)   I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

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(182 votes)   A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

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