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Jimmy Carl Black

"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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"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."

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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."

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"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

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"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."

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"Mothers are the necessity of invention."

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"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."

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"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."

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"An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started."

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Jimmy Carl Black
"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."

Invention

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Jimmy Carl Black
"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."

Friendship

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Jimmy Carl Black
"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."

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Jimmy Carl Black
"It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in."

Art

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

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Jimmy Carl Black
"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."

Mother

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Jimmy Carl Black
"I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now."

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Jimmy Carl Black
"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."

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Jimmy Carl Black
"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."

Artist

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Jimmy Carl Black
"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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