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

Quote by Frank Zappa

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Music is always a commentary on society.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves....

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves....

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two...

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two...

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...

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

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

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...

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be...

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be...

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...

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,...

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...

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted...

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted...

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,...

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

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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...

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you...

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you...

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes...

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes...

~Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to...

~Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to...

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity...

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity...