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 1979
November
Vol. 6 No. 5 Frank Zappa
He's Only 38 And He Knows How To Nasty
By Clark Peterson, 6 pp
Relix: I'm interested in your album from 1968, We're Only in
it for the Money, with the Mothers of Invention. Bill Graham says
that musicians have always been in it for the money but it's only
recently that they've admitted it. Do you think musicians have
always been in it for the money and just tried to disguise it?"
Zappa: I wouldn't say that was true, because I make a distinction
between different types of music.
Relix: But back in the '60s, there was an attitude of 'We're
for the people, man, and people like Bill Graham are only in it for
the money.'
Zappa: I think what you're trying to do is suit the answer to fit
the point you're trying to make as a person. The real answer is, if
a person decides he wants to play a harp, I don't think he does that
because he wants to make money. If a person decides he wants to play
an oboe, he doesn't do that because he wants to make money. Believe
it or not, there are some guitar players who pick up the instrument
because they want to make music and not money. But you, being a
person from the rock and roll journalistic profession, tend to view
things in a bit different way. You tend to lump all musicians
together as these people who just want to make money. I'm here to
tell you that there are many of them who really do only want to make
money, but I don't think of them as musicians.
(read more @
Relix
Magazine Nov.1979) |
