Relationship With Frank Zappa
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"Willie the Pimp"
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Van Vliet's idiosyncratic vocal on Zappa's "Willie the Pimp" was among their collaborations. Read more about this topic: Captain Beefheart Famous quotes containing the words frank zappa, relationship with, relationship, frank and/or zappa:“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” “Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn’t brotherly—who lived mostly under his parents’ roof ... who advocated one day’s work and six days “off” as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown ... is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.” “When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.” “James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.” “You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.” |