"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

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Source : Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

Frank Zappa

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“I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.”
“I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.”
“I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.”
“Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.”

Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
“Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on the way out. What we have instead is a small island of new free music surrounded by some good reworkings of past idioms and a vast sargasso sea of absolute garbage.”

Source : Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.74, Anchor
“I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.”
“If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.”
“Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.”

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