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So many books, so little time.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' - there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

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.

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

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

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