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It works Iike this.
If you take any kind of a meIody,
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I don't care if it's Hawaiian music,
or whatever it is,
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and you pIay it with a Fuzztone guitar
and a certain kind of a drum beat,
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peopIe wiII caII it rock 'n' roII.
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But what you got is a Hawaiian song,
so how are you going to categorise it?
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He took different styles of music,
put them together,
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and pointed out that
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there aren't really rules about them,
you know.
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They've been set up,
but we don't have to abide by them.
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He established a category of his own.
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You know, ''Zappa''.
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That's the way l saw him, as a composer.
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Not necessarily
of one or another kind of music,
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but he wrote all the time.
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lt was the harmony, the instrumentation,
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the sheer force of the personalities
of the people who played it,
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including humour, a lot of humour.
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He was completely ahead of his time.
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Years, decades ahead of his time.
l think his...
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Even now, l think his music
is still ahead of its time.
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Frank Zappa was the
mad scientist of music, period.
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He was the Mozart of the 20th century.
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He was a free thinker,
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and he was... He had an incredible intellect.
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