Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words Page #3

You have to let your front down and...

All right.

Now, the tape is pre-recorded electric noises

that I stuck together.

But now the... The way we work this is,

when the man in the control booth

feels moved

to add his electronic part to our work here,

he will throw a little switch,

which just lets some of this noise through,

and then I requested the musicians that,

if they feel so moved,

make any noise possible on their instrument.

No... Try to refrain from musical tones.

And, in fact...

They won't have any trouble with that order.

Bravo!

I must say that I am always

in favor of enlarging the horizons,

at least in peering anxiously

beyond the horizons

of any field of human endeavor or interest,

and, therefore, I congratulate you

on your farsightedness.

And as for your music,

don't ever do it around here again.

Some people like to

be a carpenter, you know.

They're interested

in working with their hands,

or they... Or they're interested in electronics.

They like to solder wires together.

Or they're artists, or they're something.

That's their field of interest.

Unfortunately, I like to play music.

Now, when you want to play music

and you want to earn a living

from playing music,

you have to work under the conditions

that the environment imposes on you.

They don't make it easy

for you to be a musician.

They don't...

In the United States especially,

musicians are generally regarded as sort of

useless adjuncts to the society,

unless they do something creative like

write a Coca-Cola jingle,

and then they'll be accepted.

But musicians usually are regarded

as sort of the scum of the earth,

and so, if you want to be a musician,

you just have to realize before you start

that nobody is really gonna care.

Wait a minute. It's time to hype an album.

Okay, go ahead.

This particular project

has been very expensive.

This is our third album. Can you see it?

Have you got a picture of it,

so we can all see it?

It's called We're Only in It for the Money.

We are the other people

We are the other people

We are the other people

You're the other people, too

Found a way to get to you

Do you think that I'm crazy

Out of my mind?

Do you think that I creep in the night

And sleep in a phone booth?

Let me take a minute to tell you my plan

Let me take a minute and tell who I am

If it doesn't show, think you better know

I'm another person...

All of a sudden, your music is...

Is selling and making a lot of money.

You dig the bread?

I think that it's very pleasant,

but I'd like to see some of it.

You're not getting any of it?

Well, it seems to take a long time

getting there, you know?

Record companies have

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