“I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously … I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.”

—  Frank Zappa

As quoted in No Commercial Potential : The Saga of Frank Zappa (1972) by David Walley, p. 4.

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