You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Quote by Frank Zappa

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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.

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 -...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf...

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf...

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block...

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block...

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 -...

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it...

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it...

Music is always a commentary on society.

Music is always a commentary on society.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is:...

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is:...

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

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

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

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism...

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism...

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy,...

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy,...

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford...

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford...