People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
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My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like...
BILL HADER Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believ...
FRANK ZAPPA I had just left Yes and had done a concert at Crystal Palace, South London, with a choir and orchest...
RICK WAKEMAN Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Moth...
RICK WAKEMAN Touring with Yes was generally great fun, and I got on well with the rest of the guys, but we were l...
RICK WAKEMAN I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful mus...
RICK WAKEMAN There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.
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RICK WAKEMAN I was 65 in May, and when I have just shaved, I see my father. I realise that I now have the same fa...
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RICK WAKEMAN My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ The plucky Brits were shaken but not stirred by the Superdome ordeal,
JAMES MURRAY But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
NEIL INNES In a fight between you and the world, pick the world
FRANK ZAPPA We're all so close. It was just amazing for us. We were almost crying.
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the...
AL YANKOVIC God has really blessed us in amazing ways. We were so pleased people have enrolled. People are getti...
ESTHER HERRERA We were working... with Frank Sinatra. He was in the main room, and we were in the lounge. It was a ...
BOBBY HATFIELD Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.
LISA SNOWDON There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have...
RICK MORANIS He told us that Dad would kill us before he would let us live with Rick,
DEREK KING Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which ...
FRANK ZAPPA Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like...
WILLIAM BELL Um..." Hazel faltered. "You mean you won't... you're not going to-"
"Claim your life?" Thantos...
RICK RIORDAN If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.
RICK RIORDAN Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signat...
BRIAN ENO Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.
HAROLD MCMILLAN Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault? Rick: Oh, he's just like any other man...
HUMPHREY BOGART We were looking for amazing.
MANUEL BORNIA He wasn't going to give me much out there and I didn't give him much. It didn't look like it was goi...
DENNIS SETZER Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?
Rick: Oh, he's just like any othe...
HUMPHREY BOGART All of us were in this for the same reason, just to make her feel amazing and boost her confidence b...
HOPE SPRUNGER Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie,he was worth his weight in g...
AUDREY MEADOWS Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in ...
AUDREY MEADOWS When I was a young lad, I listened to Cream,
Hendrix, Frank Zappa and the Allman Brothers. I th...
GREG KOCH I think only Anthony Zappa knows the answers to that.
LARRY HOLMQUIST The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was go...
KATIE MELUA 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest boo...
LIBBA BRAY It's a pretty amazing jump technologically for us.
CAMERON PURDY Rick came in fifth overall and he golfed really well. That was something positive for him and someth...
JEFF EDWARDS Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful...
JOYCE GIRAUD There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
FRANK ZAPPA Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something...
FRANK ZAPPA The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, ...
FRANK ZAPPA Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPA Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
FRANK ZAPPA It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: on...
FRANK ZAPPA Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can...
FRANK ZAPPA Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he need...
FRANK ZAPPA The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...
FRANK ZAPPA So many books, so little time.
FRANK ZAPPA Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
FRANK ZAPPA If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher,...
FRANK ZAPPA A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
FRANK ZAPPA Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed and permanently set.
FRANK ZAPPA Out of my mind! Back in five minutes.
FRANK ZAPPA Always follow your heart, but remember to bring your brain along.
FRANK ZAPPA A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs tr...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind ...
FRANK ZAPPA A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace...
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who c...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind o...
FRANK ZAPPA Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny
FRANK ZAPPA Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't re...
FRANK ZAPPA In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
FRANK ZAPPA Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
FRANK ZAPPA Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPA No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock...
FRANK ZAPPA It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities...
FRANK ZAPPA Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...
FRANK ZAPPA If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
FRANK ZAPPA Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going ...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to...
FRANK ZAPPA A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the a...
FRANK ZAPPA
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RICK RIORDAN Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after ...
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu...
RICK RIORDAN They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..."
"Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"
He slung his M16 onto his bac...
RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."
Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”
The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"
Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."
Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN