The rock and roll business is ...

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
 Frank Zappa

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
 Sam Walton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.
 Frank Zappa
Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.
 Frank Zappa
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.
 Frank Zappa
Well Mike, I'm abnormal.
 Frank Zappa
Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
 Frank Zappa