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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother."

"Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding."

"In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of."

"The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so."

"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."

"First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time."

"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did."

"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."
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