"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." -- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), Musician http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frank.Zappa.Quote.2786 "Don't fool yourself your all wearing uniforms." -- Frank Zappa to a crowd at his concert booing at cops. "Rock Journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa; Linda Botts Loose Talk (1980); Cf. CAPP 82:1, Oxford Concise Dictionary of Quotations. myegotimes.com editor's note: I'd adapt that to say popularized culture "journalism." AKA Yellow journalism. "Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex." -- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), Musician http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Frank.Zappa.Quote.9CE4 "Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." -- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), Musician http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Frank.Zappa.Quote.9A1A "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." -- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), Musician http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Frank.Zappa.Quote.25A9