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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."
"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."
"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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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."
"When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?"
"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."
"I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own."
"In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of."
"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."
"Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding."
"Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions."
"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."
"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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