Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, musician, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30
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“The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on”
Frank Zappa
“I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.”
“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can”
“It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity”
“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”
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced”
“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
“One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.”