Frank Zappa Quotes
The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.
Zappa, Frank, and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book. Poseidon Press, 1989, p. 239.
Wall Street and the business community urged caution about initiating war with Spain and advised the administration not to be stampeded into war by the massive public sentiment to war against Spain. The reaction to Wall Street by most Americans was one of anger and absence of patriotism. This editorial was more eloquent than most but expressed the then popular negative view of Wall Street.
Trump himself was known for being quite greedy and this admission was made before the Wall Street firms had been shown to be as greedy as they were during the aftermath of the 2008 economic meltdown recession when Wall Street Executives had their entire industry bailed out by the average taxpayer. Then they demanded their multi-million dollar bonuses while a large proportion of the people whose taxes bailed them out, were put out of work themselves by the greed, risk and profligacy of Wall Street.
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American singer-songwriter, innovative rock guitarist, modernist composer, multi-instrumentalist, satirist, film-maker, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.
