Frank – Quotes

My obligation is to

My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it. Gail Zappa

It’s nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]’s music is sad, it makes me laugh. Gail Zappa

Frank [Zappa] always wanted

Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library – he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff. Gail Zappa

Frank [Zappa] said he

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can’t help. Gail Zappa

Frank [Zappa]’s music was

Frank [Zappa]’s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won’t find elsewhere in rock and roll. Gail Zappa

Frank [Zappa] was not

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics. Gail Zappa

Frank Capra made a

Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called ‘Why We Fight’ that explored America’s reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it’s crucial to ask the questions: ‘Why are we doing what we are doing? What is … Read more

Joaquin Jackson\\’s frank and

Joaquin Jackson’s frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb. Elmer Kelton

Quality doesn\\’t mean deep

Quality doesn’t mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That’s not quality, that’s a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn’t right and things like that-but they’re far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, … Read more

What do the Republicans

What do the Republicans say? Donald Trump? They say they’re just going to roll back the Dodd-Frank regulations. They want to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Elizabeth Warren