“I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”
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English singer-songwriter and composer 1942Related quotes
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