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

“Taste is reinforced by what gets broadcast, and it’s reinforced by who receives those stupid awards on those horrible award shows that keep coming up over and over and over again.”2

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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

I told Frank that I had never before seen anyone on stage with such apparent indifference for his audience. “Well, I don’t think you can really ask for much more than that,” he replied. “Unless you’re one of these ass-licking pop performers that must always do a song that people must enjoy in the traditional sense of enjoyment. If that’s your job,

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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

A lot of what we do is designed to annoy people to the point where they might just for a second question enough of their environment to do something about it. As long as they don’t feel their environment, they don’t worry about it, they’re not going to do anything to change it. And something’s got to be done before America scarfs up the world and s

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.