Q: In a democracy, are there any controls
that are valid over artists?
ZAPPA: No. Why?
Why does an artist need to be
controlled in a democracy?
In a democracy, everybody gets to say
what's on their mind.
Now the problem with a democracy is, and I've been
having just nightmares about democracy recently because
within the last few years I've become more and more
interested in getting people to vote and to register
and do all this stuff, and I've been active in that,
and I'm going, yeah, let's get democracy going,
and I'm going, wait a minute, we've got a big problem,
because you can't really have a democracy,
if one man's vote equals another man's vote,
then one man's education has to equal another
man's education so that people have not only the basic
machinery to assimilate the data from which they will
draw their conclusion and cast their vote, I mean,
you have to have that as a basis for a democracy.
And when you have a society where too many people
can't read or write, how can you say, you know,
we all have an equal voice in the government?
And when certain candidates don't have access
to the information-dispensing machinery without paying
millions upon millions of dollars,
that virtually, that limits the dialogue.
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