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Jimmy Carl Black

"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."

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"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."

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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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"I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her."

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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."

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"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 was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."

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"I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it."

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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

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"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."

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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."

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"It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in."
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"Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding."
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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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"The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so."
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"I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life."
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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
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"I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists."
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"I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us."
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"Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period."
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