“Blow it out your ass, motorcycle man”
and
“Titties and beer!”
FZ Quotation - “Jazz isn’t dead: it just smells funny.”
And for lyric, I don’t think he ever again matched the stark realism of “The Slime”
"I am gross and perverted,
I’m obsessed and deranged
I have existed for years,
but very little has changed
I’m the tool of the government
and industry, too
For I am destined to rule
and regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious,
but you can’t look away
I make you think I’m delicious
with the stuff that I say
I’m the best you can get -
Have you guessed me yet?
I’m the slime oozing out
from your TV set!.."
It was bang on true in 1973, and it’s truer than ever, now that we have more channels of zombification in 2008.
Well, he’s got his own little piece of heaven now…
My hair is getting good in the back!
“But I have ze crystal ball!”
…and later…
“But I have ze Ring of Fire!”
Two song choices here:
mshar253, here’s another vote for the Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation double pack–it has all the cool stuff, including my probably favorite overall Zappa song “Montana.” Sample lyric:
"And then I
get a cuppa coffee
And give my foot a push
Just me and the pygmy pony,
over by the dental floss bush!
And then I might just
jump back on
and ride
like a cowboy
into the dawn of Montana"
And Apostrophe wins the overall favorite album in my book–there isn’t a track on it that isn’t top drawer and the way they all fit together is fabulous. Joe’s Garage is my second favorite overall. Just too much good weirdness to categorize!
“Along a one celled Hammond organism underneath my shoes”
“Whereupon I proceeded to take a mittenful of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people in this area but destined to replace the mudshark in your mythology–here it goes now, the circular motion, rub it!”
“Dinah-Moe watched from the end of the bed with her lips just a-twitchin’ and her face gone red, some drool rollin’ down from the edge of her chin as she spied the condition her sister was in”
“She had that Camarillo Brillo, I mean that Mendocino Beano”
“The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe!”
Goddamn, I do love me some Zappa and it’s a damned shame he isn’t around any more.
Quote: “A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want.”
Banter during Pygmy Twylyte on Roxy & Elsewhere
Fillmore East
Lyric:
Bwana Dik, Fillmore East
Lyric/quote:
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are, Fillmore East
Once, at a microphone sound check, I blurted out “Hi, I’m Jimmy Carl Black and I’m the Indian of the group.”
He was interviewed by High Times back around 1980. The interviewer asked him what his parents thougth of his music. He replied “They stick their fingers in their ears. I don’t do what I do for parental approval.”
My favorite quote from Bwana Dik is:
My dick is a Harley
You kick it to start
hehheh
I wish I could find the exact quote. After Clinton and Gore made the Democratic ticket in 1992, Zappa said something along the lines of, “I’d kiss Tipper Gore on the lips to get George Bush out of the White House.”
From Dance Contest on Tinseltown Rebellion:
“I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you’re out there and you’re cute, maybe you’re beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin’ — there’s more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.”
More of a quote than a lyric, perhaps.
While searching for the exact wording, I found this great collection of Zappa quotes.
Favorite quote:
“Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible”
Favorite lyric:
Republicans is fine if you’re a multi-millionaire
Democrats is fair if all you own is what you wear
Neither of 'ems really right 'cause neither of 'em care
'Bout that hot plate heaven, 'cause they ain’t been there
from “Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel”
Another vote for the combined Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation double package. Having those two on the same CD is just such ridiculously good value, there can’t be a better CD for the money anywhere.
Fick mich, du miserabler hurensohn
She was buns-up kneelin’
Buns up!
She stripped away
Her rancid poncho
An’ laid out naked by the door
We did it till we were un-concho
An’ it was useless any more
I proceeded to tell him his future, then
As long as he was hanging around
I said the price of meat has just gone up
And your old lady has just gone down!
Great googly moogly!
Why does it hurt when I pee?
I don’t want no doctor
To stick no needle in me
Why does it hurt when I pee?
They got diseases
Like you never seen
Got a mystery blow-job
Turn your peter green
In France
You are what you is
You is what you am
A cow don’t make ham
Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.
I’m going to Montana soon;
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
If lyrics make people do things, how come we don’t love each other?
How is it own none of his work? This will be remedied, and soon.
To Congress:
“The PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children, and promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with the interpretational and enforcemental problems inherent in the proposal’s design. It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this context, the PMRC’s demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation. (…) The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow “J” on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?”
The quotes are well-represented here, so I’ll just go to lyrics:
What’s the ugliest part of your body?
What’s the ugliest part of your body?
Some say your nose
Some say your toes
I think it’s your mind.
DON’T COME IN ME, IN ME!
DON’T COME IN ME, IN ME!
…
Sorry Madge, I couldn’t help it… doggone it!
Evelyn the dog, having undergone further modification, pondered the significance of short-person behavior and other highly ambient domains… “Arf!” she said.
Within the week, Jerry Lewis had hosted a telethon:
–from “Billy The Mountain”/Just Another Band From L.A. But you knew that already, didn’t you?
Heh–from Joe’s Garage: