Top 20 Jimmy Carl Black Quotes

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn’t question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

I really don’t have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa’s satirical lyric’s than anyone that I know of.

My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank’s songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

I don’t know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I – or anyone else – could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.

When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD’s and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?

I know I didn’t like that dress ’cause it didn’t fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren’t the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.

I use Windows; ’98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don’t know what I would do without it now.

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

Most people are really cool and I really don’t mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

I’ve been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I’m still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn’t get paid for it like they did.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius – in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.