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

"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."

"I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that."

"I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together."

"I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though."

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

"I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception."

"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."
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