Captain Beefheart - Relationship With Frank Zappa

Relationship With Frank Zappa

"Willie the Pimp" Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player.
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:

    “No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.”
    —Frank Zappa (1940–1994)

    “Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
    —Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)

    “Every man is in a state of conflict, owing to his attempt to reconcile himself and his relationship with life to his conception of harmony. This conflict makes his soul a battlefield, where the forces that wish this reconciliation fight those that do not and reject the alternative solutions they offer. Works of art are attempts to fight out this conflict in the imaginative world.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “Calling it your job don’t make it right, boss.”
    —Donn Pierce, U.S. screenwriter, Frank R. Pierson, and Stuart Rosenberg. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman)

    “Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
    —Frank Zappa (1940–1994)