Moon Unit Zappa Quotes

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

There is always a time to move on.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

You have to decide when it is time to move on.

Let's forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.

The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end - even if it's momentarily.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.