"It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gail Zappa

#Nice Quotes #Essence Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1960). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving”
“We're dealing with problems that kids today have now and that is a scary thing because kids nowadays, obviously, it's no-holds-barred. I'm scared to have children someday.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'”

Source : "Zambian vice-president: 'South Africans are backward'" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2013.
“Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.”
“No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.”
“Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.”
“I just want to say we support the troops and we love every one of them. Even if they...I know a lot of my friends that are in the military that they don't agree with...Some of them are total, total liberals or this or that, whatever they are and I just want to say that we love all the troops. We don't care what they believe in, they're defending our country and we love them for that. And they're the biggest bad assses...in the world and we just want to thank you. We hope they enjoy the music and we'll keep pumping it out and just keep staying bad asses!”
“I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one.”

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