Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa: The Story of Frank Zappa

The whole right-wing trend is people who want to look upstanding while they go home and do as much weird stuff as they can get away with.”17

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned … Look, how many people died as a result of the Bible compared to the Kama Sutra? There’s no competition.”12

“HONKER believes that WHAT YOU WATCH and WHEN YOU WATCH IT should be a matter of personal choice, and such decisions are not appropriately made by third parties or organised pressure groups. Nonetheless, for the deranged few who feel that censorshipis a good idea, HONKER provides NO-D GLASSES so they can do it to themselves.”9 While all these proje

Thesaurus Of Scales And Patterns [published when Frank was six years old]

“Musicians left to their own devices are incredibly lazy. Outside of sea slugs, I don’t think there’s any species less oriented toward punctuality.”

Night School, his concept for a weekday late-night programme. The aim was to show raw, uncut news footage, point out what had been deleted or ignored and speculate on the reasons for each omission. A live band would be in the studio, the musicians doubling as actors in ‘pre-enactments’ of the ‘possible social consequences’ of specific news items.

“The people who want to censor do not care about saving your children,” he told David Sheff. “They care about one thing – getting re-elected. Let’s face it, folks: Politicians in the United States are the scum of the earth. We have to go after them individually because they’re varmints. The legislation they are passing, piece by piece, converts Ame

Frank read the ‘talking asshole’ section from Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. Frank and Burroughs were pictured together at the event in Rolling Stone; later, over dinner, they discussed the possibility of

Anyone of a nervous disposition would have become a Child of God or moved to Oregon and bought the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh a couple of Rolls Royces. Instead, Frank embodied Hunter S. Thompson’s dictum: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”