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BILL HADER Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN The way you deal with us is not to bully and not to threaten, and the mayor is smart enough to know ...
JOE BRUNO The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD Geeks are cool, true and follow through. Even when shit hits the fan because we know there is not a ...
JOHN VINCENT ABRAHAM I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.
GEORGE CLOONEY I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN I know my fan base is a smart group of people.
AZIZ ANSARI This is a love story with six protagonists, ... And it's about a girl on the cusp of womanhood, a gi...
MARK ADAMO He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
LAO TZU I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA This is a national problem being dumped on Southern California.
JOHN HUSING I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enou...
MARJORIE SCARDINO The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
LANCE ARMSTRONG Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.
NORA ROBERTS I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs lik...
DARRYL PINCKNEY Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ...
APURVA GAGLANI Those kids know what to do and to not play to the crowd. He knows the rules. He needs to be smart en...
PAT FLANNERY A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
NANCY GIBBS I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my...
RANDY PAUSCH Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the gam...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE J. MCCARTHY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE J. MCCARTHY You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human ...
HELEN FISHER Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask fo...
ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
CRAIG GROESCHEL He threw a punch at the everyman, at the typical Russell Crowe fan -- he really crossed the line.
TOM O'NEIL I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being be...
MARY J. BLIGE What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew...
HUGH MASEKELA Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE MCCARTHY He's smart enough to know he'll be in a fish bowl. He should know he'll be under scrutiny.
ARTHUR SLOANE I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
NED VIZZINI Being smart is not the same as being right.
MUHAMMED HAIDER I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
IDINA MENZEL Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and ...
EUGENE J. MCCARTHY Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Donald Trump tells us that he is very, very smart. I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign poli...
MITT ROMNEY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK He was obviously not a very good pilot because he dumped the helicopter when he got out of the facil...
ROBERT CROWDER Frank came to this country with $150 in his pocket. Here is where Frank is really different -- he ha...
DENNIS MILLS Rock is not dead, but it is The Walking Dead, with a few groups still trying to survive in a zombie ...
MICHAEL P. NAUGHTON We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK He may not be on this Earth anymore, but I know he'll be up there in heaven watching every play, ......
DAVID GARCIA If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands ...
NORMAN MAILER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I alway...
K. D. LANG (Girls get) the social messages that being a single, unwed mother is a very bad thing, and they're s...
CAROL SANGER The duet with Frank Sinatra, 'What Now My Love,' is one of my favorites.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMAN Frank [Sebastiano] is a real writer, ... He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Ch...
ARTIE LANGE Frank [Sebastiano] is a real writer, ... He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Ch...
ARTIE LANGE I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let hi...
BLAKE SHELTON I've always been smart but you know how it is just doing enough to be in the middle of the pack. But...
LARRY FOOTE To be good is not enough when you dream of being great.
ANONYMOUS It's not the same fastball he used to throw. But he's smart enough to mix 'em up.
BRANDON INGE One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already...
TAVI GEVINSON Kenyon Martin is sitting on the bench when a fan begins to heckle him. Martin stands up, turns aroun...
DETECTIVE VIRGINIA LOPEZ Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were imp...
ANONYMOUS Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were im...
DOUG LARSON Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're of...
PAUL BLOOM To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one ...
KERRY E. WAGNER I assume she is not sincere because if you're smart enough to be on the Supreme Court, you should be...
BEN AUSTIN There's no such thing as a typical sci-fi fan,
DAVID STEWART I think everyone is entitled to our heritage and should not be denied it. It is elitist not to teach...
JOHN BELL There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA When it was there, he took it. When it wasn't that was pretty much the end of it. It is just being a...
ISAAC BRUCE 'It's not you, it's me.'

'Oh God. That's exactly what my last three boyfriends said whe...
KIM FIELDING Carlson is a nice player ... we've really got to concentrate on her. I think Sarah is smart enough a...
CHRIS HANAFAN Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arr...
DAN BENISHEK My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.
SLASH He who knows not when he has enough, is poor.
VIKRANT PARSAI Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first ...
TERRY GOODKIND I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
TRENT LOTT Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
VERA NAZARIAN Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
NOT YER TYPICAL DORK Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you're not so intelligent as you intelligently once...
CARROLL BRYANT He's a great choice. He's both smart and funny. He can be serious when the case demands. He can be s...
LEONARD MALTIN How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. A child works by faith; he is not wise enough to know doubt.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they wer...
DOUG LARSON The organization has been good to Frank. He played a big part in White Sox history, and they've ackn...
ED FARMER Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and...
DONALD TRUMP All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse...
MARK TWAIN We can all make music individually. But we are smart enough to know that the music we make together ...
PETER BUCK You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and t...
MELINA MARCHETTA It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be ...
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FRANK ZAPPA I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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FRANK ZAPPA You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to...
FRANK ZAPPA A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the a...
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FRANK ZAPPA Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
FRANK ZAPPA The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable.
FRANK ZAPPA Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true.
FRANK ZAPPA If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine- but to hang a...
FRANK ZAPPA No, I don't think people really give a shit about that (meeting one's maker) unless they're complete...
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FRANK ZAPPA Anything, Any time, Anywhere - for no Reason at All.
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FRANK ZAPPA There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the...
FRANK ZAPPA Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
FRANK ZAPPA I'm vile and perverted.
I'm obsessed and deranged.
I've existed for years but very little...
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FRANK ZAPPA Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
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FRANK ZAPPA It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
FRANK ZAPPA Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget ab...
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Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is ...
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FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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AHMET ZAPPA The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't comm...
AHMET ZAPPA I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
AHMET ZAPPA I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are ...
AHMET ZAPPA I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
AHMET ZAPPA I collect things that just look retarded.
AHMET ZAPPA All the drawings are mine. Originally, the idea I sold to Random House was an illustrated recipe boo...
AHMET ZAPPA I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off...
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for a...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music becaus...
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AHMET ZAPPA I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My re...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but thin...
AHMET ZAPPA The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do w...
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AHMET ZAPPA I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they h...
AHMET ZAPPA I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.
AHMET ZAPPA At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school wa...
AHMET ZAPPA I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actuall...
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA I don't care about a social life.
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and j...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melo...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something lik...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textur...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music ...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing mus...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and som...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybo...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long s...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA Gag me with a spoon!
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked ...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.
MOON UNIT ZAPPA I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make brea...
MOON UNIT ZAPPA boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
FRANK IERO I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I...
FRANK SINATRA The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou...
ZE FRANK I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ...
ZE FRANK We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
ZE FRANK For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
ZE FRANK If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
ZE FRANK I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
ZE FRANK YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
ZE FRANK I'm fascinated by simple joy.
ZE FRANK We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
ZE FRANK What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
ZE FRANK I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
ZE FRANK I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
ZE FRANK In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
ZE FRANK Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
ZE FRANK Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
ZE FRANK Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
ZE FRANK The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
ZE FRANK When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
ZE FRANK On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
ZE FRANK I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
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