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Frank Zappa

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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Frank Zappa is saying that the best music was created long ago by classical composers who wore wigs, referring to the old-fashioned style of past centuries. He implies that modern music struggles to match the quality or creativity of those earlier works.

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