Jimmy Carl Black Quotes

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.

My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together.

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.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.

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

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 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.

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.

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.

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

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