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"...If a person dosen't feel cynical, then they are out of phaze with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way of dealing with modern civilisation, you can't just swallow it all..."

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"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open."

Don't forget to register to vote

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All the time he would spend...all the colors he'd blend...
Where are they now?

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I want dis little pussy
Baby wants some o' dis
And some o' dat
Don't treat me, baby, like your
Any old Alley Cat
Alley Cat, Alley Cat

Jimmie D Fan

Ok, here's what FZ really said:

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

...and where is the difference? In the word All/whole? To Deal/Dealing? Oh my, I can't belive you just correct me because of two very equivalent words to this effect (well, actually, I can).

Why don't you do a real service to Zappadom and correct all the Plentful Hydrogen-Stupidity quotes around?



For Today:

So long as somebody gets a laugh out of it, what the fuck?

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My favorite Gail Zappa quote for today....



Posted in FAQ 1997:

Where are the videos?

Answer of the Moment:

"All of the videos with the exception of "Does Humor Belong in Music?" were re-mastered to D2 (the highest quality professional digital video format) with various color corrections and enhancements. We are currently considering a laserdisc release as well as the VHS. We hope to have these final versions available in the market place through BARFKO-SWILL by September of 1996.(as you have most likely noticed, this has not happened as yet, but we are making some progress)"



....Im just glad I didnt hold my breath

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All the time he would spend...all the colors he'd blend...
Where are they now?

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Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy imaginary diseases (Psalms 103:3 )

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Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy imaginary diseases (Psalms 103:3 )

my personal favorite has always been

The person who stands up and says, ``This is
stupid,'' either is asked to `behave' or, worse,
is greeted with a cheerful ``Yes, we know!
Isn't it terrific!''

Two of my favourite quotes, making a lot of sense to me as a parent, and no doubt other parents here too...

"The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property"
Source: Frank Zappa on Howard Stern - 1987

and

"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".

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"Listen to that noise! It's like Barry White eating wasps."

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.--on being asked by Tipper Gore if there was anything on the TV he _didn't_ allow his kids to watch ...

Regarding 200 . . . uhh . . . "Hotels"
COQ: A lot of people came out of the theaters scratching their heads.

Zappa: Well, they come out of concerts the same way, but at least I've given them the chance to go in and see something that will allow them to scratch their heads instead of letting them sit in front of a television set and scratch their balls and know in advance what everybody is going to say and what everybody is going to do.

From here:

http://home.online.no/~corneliu/coq.htm

Which is from here:

http://home.online.no/~corneliu/coq.htm

Thanx again Lumpy!

vcf

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There isn't much chance that you'll get people to like you. The best that most folks can hope for is that people will put up with their shit. MTF

Revel in your otherness. MK

STILL pissed at Tipper. VCF

"Good for what, preserving the corpse?" (FZ to me in response to my description of my then new Army surplus jacket that was said to be "good down to 40 below zero".) arthur barrow

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i'm totally spiritual

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre." (1977)


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa

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It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right...
Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
-- Frank Zappa, quoted from The Real Frank Zappa Book

"Information doesn't kill you."
-- Frank Zappa, at the Senate Hearing on "Porn Rock", 1985 during an exchange with a Born Again Christian

Jazz is not dead it just smells funny

"It is my contention that each and every member of this band owes me a cheeseburger." (FZ to the band at a reheasal, after we had misguidedly wagered we could play some outrageous musical idea he had concocted.)

http://pw1.netcom.com/~bigear/Zappa.html#Quotes

vcf

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There isn't much chance that you'll get people to like you. The best that most folks can hope for is that people will put up with their shit. MTF

Revel in your otherness. MK

STILL pissed at Tipper. VCF

"What something is, depends more on when it is, than anything else"

FZ in "The Present Day Composer Refuses to Die"

"To all the cute people in the world, there's more of us ugly fu**ers than you, so watch out!"

''Who wants to go through life with a tiny nose and one glove on?''

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''minimart - it's basically a scaled-down supermarket, fits inside a petrol station. sells pies, antifreeze..''

"It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paper work, and the other is nostalgia." FZ


"Is that a real poncho? I mean, is that a Mexican poncho, or is that a Sears poncho?" FZ

"I work so hard, don't you understand, making maple syrup for the pancakes of our land. Do you have any idea what that can do to a man?" FZ

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I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate efforts to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless. V. Van Gogh

Jerry Kay: Did you fade out a couple of songs with "Oooooh-la-LA-la"?

Frank Zappa: "I think everything has to fade out with "Oooooh-la-LA-la". If you're going to fade out, you have to fade out with those words because those are the magic words. There are three or four really important words that happen in rock and roll and other types of music that normal people like to listen to. "Oooooh-la-LA-la" considered as one hyphenated word, would be one of the important words, and the other thing that you definitely gotta watch out for are the three other important magic words that make radio stations go off the air. But we won't discuss them right now. Those are the most powerful words in America today, that's why we have such a wonderful place to live in. Now, I'm here to play an album for you and I'm rapping... well.. rapping is one of those words that you say when you go on rock and roll radio stations... I'm rapping a little bit at this point to prepare each and every one of you for the grand and glorious experience of getting your little cassette machines out BECAUSE I would like to have you tape-record this album off the air BECAUSE this album is not going to be available in the stores BECAUSE Warner Brothers is trying to RUIN MY DARN CAREER. "

"Warner Brothers sucks"

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