I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist -…

Quote by Frank Zappa

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Music is always a commentary on society.

Music is always a commentary on society.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It...

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It...

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in...

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in...

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical...

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical...

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say,...

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say,...

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the...

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the...

It isnt necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice there are two...

It isnt necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice there are two...

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or...

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or...

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if...

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if...

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something...

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something...

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me...

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me...

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who...

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who...

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something...

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something...

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules,...

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules,...

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in...

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in...

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people...

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people...