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Frank Zappa

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For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.


— Frank Zappa


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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa, composer, musician, film director (1940-1993)


— Frank Zappa


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


— Frank Zappa


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No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.


— Frank Zappa


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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.


— Frank Zappa


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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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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.


— Frank Zappa


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


— Frank Zappa


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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.


— Frank Zappa


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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


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Did you know about Frank Zappa?

Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech self-education political participation and the abolition of censorship. "Kay" Sherman from 1960 to 1964.

His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention Freak Out! combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech self-education political participation and the abolition of censorship. Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

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