Zappa's "Project/Object".

"It's all one album. All the material in the albums is organically related and if I had all the master tapes and I could take a razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a different way, and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely related."

Zappa on conceptual continuity, from Barry Miles' biography, p. 160.

*More on C.C. coming soon. I shall talk more about it, since it's a primordial aspect of Zappa's work.

Absolutely Free in London.

"(...) I need to know about the scene here. I've got to know enough about it to convince the British audiences that they need to know the things we have to say. And what we have to say can be useful to any young person in any country in the world if that person wants to get a true picture of the environment and society that was established by his fathers, and which he'll have to take over."

Zappa talking to Nick Jones from Melody Maker, in Barry Miles' biography, p. 150.

Quotes.

From now on, I'll be posting some interesting quotes from Barry Miles' biography on Zappa. It's a idea I should have had a long time ago... I had a flash when I read two REALLY interesting passages in less than 20 pages. I was like: "Gee, why not quote the man!..."

So here they are. Enjoy them as they come!

Love... Or Something Like It.

Zappa curiously says of his family that they are his only friends... This tells us a lot on what kind of man he was. Or at least, how he thought of himself.
He must have not been that bad, since a beautiful groupie named Gail fell in love with him and his dubious hair/goatie due. She saw more in Zappa than the image.

In fact, Barry Miles recalls Gail's first impression of his husband-to-be as a dirty-looking, weird-smelling guy. They met in 1966 and a that odd appearance didn't stop them from getting married a year later, in September, while she was pregnant with their first child.
Zappa himself said that they only married because of their religious families and background. It also would have been hard for Gail to be admitted in a hospital for her delivery if the child she was carrying was to be born outside the bonds of marriage...
After a not-so-fruitful first wedding, Frank Zappa finally found the love of his life in the person of Gail. Their union would be responsible for the birth of Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva. Four kids (with weird names, yes) and different talents.

I'm guessing that, in a way, they both found themselves attracted to the originality of the other... and their love for music, obviously. These two shared an idea of the world that not many people could have followed. Today, Gail still manages Zappa's image and musical heritage. She had a tremendous respect for her husband's work and would do anything to protect it. Zappa's legacy has nothing to worry about.