Quick! Your favorite Zappa quotes!
Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated. "Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein" - Pauly Shore.
It's a real Zappa© quote:
ReplyDeleteRock musician Frank Zappa (1940-1993) said in a February 1971 interview (available on YouTube):
“Well I think that progress is not possible without deviation. And I think that it’s important that people be aware of some of the creative ways in which some of their fellow men are deviating from the norm, because in some instances they might find these deviations inspiring and might suggest further deviations which might cause progress, you never know.”
In a 1987 book, this quote was shortened to, “My attitude toward anybody’s sexual persuasion is this: without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” The quote is usually presented as, “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
"Don't Eat The Yellow Snow!"
DeleteIt's not getting any smarter out there.
ReplyDeleteI never said all that shit
ReplyDeleteOh, wait, that was confucius
nevermind
More or less, I think,
ReplyDeleteThe mind is like a parachute, it works best when open
Hydrogen is not the most common element in the universe, stupidity is.
ReplyDeleteCommunism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
ReplyDeleteCommunism doesn't ban Personal Property LOL.
DeleteNot sure if he was speaking his own mind here or parodying a common misconception of communism. He was a libertarian of some description, so didn't subscribe to any political point of view.
DeleteDefinition 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
ReplyDeletethat I use the most: "is that a Mexican poncho or a Sear's poncho"
ReplyDelete"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." From some Joe's garage?
This really is an extraordinary quote, worthy of any of them Greek philostophers.
Delete"The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe."
ReplyDelete"The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe."
ReplyDeleteWe heered ya da foist time!
DeleteEverybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
ReplyDeletewhere or when he said it i don't remember but after a lifetime of trying to find answers i realized that most revelations i've heard and took to heart came from him and others like Heller Kesey Vonnegut and of course Burroughs
....woody
"Zorch stroking fast and bulbous."
ReplyDelete"Fast and bulbous" ©Captain Beefheart
Delete"Everyone in this room is wearing a uniform, don't kid yourselves." The brilliance of truth.
ReplyDelete"You'll hurt your throat, stop it!"
DeleteA one-two punch of genius right there.
DeleteListened to this album (Burnt Weeny) for the 4,582,016th time yesterday and STILL heard something new in it.
Delete"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny."
ReplyDelete(What's the ugliest part of your body?) I think it's your mind. Woo, woo.
ReplyDeleteI have an FZ refrigerator magnet with the "without deviation" quote.
"The illusion of Freedom will persist as long as it is profitable to those purveying it. When that is no longer the case the stage-set will be wheeled away and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre". (more or less, as I recall)
ReplyDeleteSaid walls have closed in so much that there's hardly room to navigate through all the cluttered sight-obstructing set-dressing, and even the ground immediately outside my employer's place is lid with zig-zagging bricks as a surreptitious wink.