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.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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." in the context of "As quoted in No Commercial Potential : The Saga of Frank Zappa (1972) by David Walley, p. 4." to mean that wisdom is timeless.