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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…

— Frank Zappa Joe's Garage Acts II & III (1979)

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The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987)

The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.

The MOFO Project/Object (2006)

Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow.

Apostrophe (') (1974)

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