Frank Zappa

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. "

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

"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. "

"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. "

"In the fight between you and the world, back the world. "

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice -- there are two other possibilities one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. "

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. "

"The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced. "