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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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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
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Drugs
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A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
-Frank Zappa
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Fame
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Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad.
-Frank Zappa
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Government
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
-Frank Zappa
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Journalism
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
-Frank Zappa
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Music
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
-Frank Zappa
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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
-Frank Zappa
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
-Frank Zappa
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No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
-Frank Zappa
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Time
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
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Books by and about Frank Zappa