He loved Hollywood. In Roxy by Proxy he said "it's wonderful to live in Hollywood and be a part of this community because there are so many perverts, you know. And perverts help normal people look good"
PINK GORILLAZ ALBUM Great question, and something I’ve long considered. My guess is that they would have. The similarities far outweighed the differences. And yet, FZ would have undoubtedly disagreed with Carlin’s drug and alcohol usage, and Carlin would’ve undoubtedly disagreed with FZ’s views on voting.
@@spb7883 It's not free market capitalism at all. It's crony capitalism, which is anathema to an actual free market. Crony capitalism, (the very essence of the Washington "swamp") is, by all intents and purposes, socialism for the mega rich!
@@janjansen7983 Oh f**k! man, What are you saying with that?, Religion is the first that wants you to be an ignorant because if you're smart then you realize that all of the bible is bullexcretions.
@@JP-xd6fm What do you want me to say? There is no new thing under the sun. Religion has nothing to do with it, but people like you never seem to get that. You will find out one day, too, I guess
That part starting at 1:12 where he says "you have none of the problems of people who know more than you do because the more you know, the less you like it" reminds me of the quote by Lisa Simpson - "Dad as intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down." Groening was a big Zappa and Beefheart fan.
well, yes and no. There is the kind of knowledge that once you acquire, you just _can't_ go back. Zappa is on the pessimistic side of the equation. I'm not saying he is wrong, I'm saying he choses to see the bottle half-empty many times.
Ya GOTTA Love this Man!! If not for his Fantastic Legacy of Music, then, for his Honesty!! Like Great Movies, ya gotta hear Frank's Albums a Couple times to Appreciate & Marvel at & for his work!! A True Genius!!
Holy smokes.....i gotta listen to this a few times this beautiful morning.....Us dummies take a lil longer to get it.....but once we do....You cant take it from us.....Rome wasn't built in a day either....And if you don't particularly like Franks music, its very hard not to appreciate his authenticity....(and genius) Tell it like it is.....Whether your Smart or Dumb......Remember, we make are own Truth.....be True to you....than to others if possible...R.I.P Mr. Zappa and thank you.....
@@bigswingface5847 and the more you know......the less you like it...... ignorance is bliss I suppose.....but there s a catch there too!......Frank knew stuff we dont......the Man on the Silver ⛰......I truly should take more time and look more into his music.....He was alone....FRANK.....His music will be here for many many more years for the People......
i don't think that is what he was talking about at all, but also we are not who we are because of what everyone does, we don't even know everyone (and most people don't help each other at all, if that is what you were getting at)
Decades later, I still enjoy a few things from English lit class in high school, but "The Real Frank Zappa Book" still occupies a space on the shelf, right next to "Animal Farm." Both are pretty good guides as to what you're going to see out there in the world.
I began listening to his music in the 80's and I still enjoy it, but that is one of the smartest minute and twenty five seconds I've ever heard. I wish someone had told me that when I was 14, at the age when little things can make a big difference. Losing him so early was a big loss for the entire culture.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being yourself, i.e. who you are as a person, it is way more cooler to just be yourself than something you are not.
I do not consider myself exceptional in any way mentally, however I related very much to the idea of "dumbing yourself down" to sort of blend in. When I was younger I always passed standardized tests with ease, but slacked off in class to fly under the radar. I don't like attention, and I certainly don't like being given praise that I feel is unwarranted. So I continued for years to, in a way, suppress myself. It changed me fundamentally, and it's a habit I'm still trying to shake off to this day. In a way, though. It's nice this way. I've found that by suppressing my natural reactions to things I give myself time to experience them in a different way. It can be eye opening, and can make you an easier going person.
Omg, where was this interview when I was a kid,,,1974 ish…..I remember being in the mentally gifted minors, ,,, i was way smarter than my friends,,,,,,but,,, I really wanted to fit in…. Dammit. I needed to hear this in 74. Big fan. As a senior i submitted Dyna Moe hum to my poetry teacher in 79,,, Much Love Frank.
Don't wanna sound like one of those shitty pseudo intellectual kids but it really struck me when he mentioned that you shouldn't dumb yourself down just to be friends with people. I've always wanted a friend who knew a lot so we can share information and have engaging conversations and further our talents but I have found 0 people like that. Instead I try my best to appease my school friends with dumb humor and admittedly I'm unhappy. It's made a definition of a friend incredibly superficial to me, it's just someone who hangs out with you, and that's obviously no real friend
it is really hard to find a truly good friend in life who we can talk with about all kinds of interesting things too, i hope life works out really good for you.. it's best to build up doing the things we love and find interesting, at least that way we don't regret not trying to do those things, and through time those skills can help us in life too, and can also help us meet people at can relate with Good luck with you pursuing doing what you love i hope! my biggest mistake was just not trying to do the things that i felt would be good to do, due to other peoples cynicism or guilt trips when i wanted to fly fast jets and was surrounded by pacifists.. but really they saved me from doing harm in this world maybe.. and I've started doing my songwriting again after getting diverted in life for years.. but my best advice, given based on my regrets, is it is best to try to do things you love or are interested in and ignore people who try to tell you what you should study or work on or do etc.. only you can know best what you would like to do in life or in your days and it's best to trust and do what your instincts and gut feeling and drives are telling you you would like to do and build up in your life and avoid people who are mean to you on purpose or seem to enjoy mocking you.. they might say they are friends but they can't be trusted if they do that I've got lots of other things i can think of but i can't mention the RUclips channel i run where i talk about things like that as i would get even more shadowbanned than i am for my political statements for then spamming comments sections! it's not the one I'm posting this from but i think it's really important to look at yourself and tell yourself you are doing Great in what can be a tough world and then just please try to enjoy life too douing things you would like to do, even small things you would like to do in your day or see or experience, and it all adds up to create a good set of memories that you did things you wanted to try to do in your life, then even if things don't work out you don't have the regard lregrets of not trying to do things you felt you would have liked to try to do, and you can always change your direction at any time you feel you want to and try other things, and all that experience adds up into more knowledge and more skills and more memories and hopefully good friends and love etc Good luck!! i hope life will be Really good for you and for anyone who ever reads this in future
I needed to hear this lol. I wish more than anything that I could escape the identity society has molded for me, live up to my potential, express my creativity and be true to myself. I just feel so isolated, so completely alone when I don’t try to act like everyone else
+Johnathan White: I needed to hear this when I was entering high school, but the "Kill Ugly Radio Some More" sampler, which includes this, came out when I was in college.
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." Frank Zappa Thank you Mr. Zappa!!!!!! Those of us who were blessed enough to realize your genius wish you were still here!!!
+gyp darin: It was from an interview with Ben Manilla for WLIR-FM, a talk radio station in Hampton Bays, New York, which is on Long Island. This was only released on a 1995 sampler CD titled "Kill Ugly Radio Some More," which was the sequel to "Kill Ugly Radio" and was followed by "Return Of The Son Of Kill Ugly Radio." The titling is in the tradition of three guitar solo albums Zappa released in the early 1980s: "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar," "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More" and "Return Of The Son Of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar."
Not exactly. Anyone can form their own opinion it’s just some governments kill you for it. Even in this country, it’s the illusion of being free. Abortion and marijuana just failed to pass in Florida even though both amendments polled well over 50% . The people spoke and the government said “yeah fuck you my dicks bigger” as George would say lol.
"Anybody who had an IQ over 28, let's say, people would say was probably a threat to the community." Well, then I can proudly say I was never a threat to anybody.
I would never call myself intelligent, but others have certainly said I was. However, I've never tried to play dumber than I am, just to maintain friendships. And consequently, I've never been popular or had a lot of friends. So the question is: would I be happier if I pretended to be dumb enough to watch TV and drink beer all day? I'd still be alone, but I'd be free from the pressures of having to perform...
Thats how I always felt about sports. Whether a grown man catches a ball or doesn't has no impact in my life whatsoever. Perhaps if i was betting, but i never bet
My god. FZ is so brutally honest. It's depressing to care, but I can't help it. I am astounded, and saddened by the fact that our political leaders in this country are picked mostly on the basis of campaign slogans by people unwilling or unable to think for themselves.
@Zolar Czakl I started to get involved in local politics. At the local level there are a lot of clueless people in elected office. This is the pool from which national candidates are drawn. Those tend to be people who, if they are capable of learning anything, it is only how to get elected.
Also if ya dig and enjoyed this by Frank Zappa 😀 you may also enjoy the song " Most of All " By Glenn Kaiser and Where Roses Grow Live by Rez Band Awesome songs check them out. I remember hearing the song by Led Zepp " In My Time of Dyin " during my drug years and made me think about death and Jesus. Then a hippy friend that dug Jesus told me more of Jesus love and forgiveness and how I could also know Jesus love. So in 1981 I cried out to Jesus and wow man He came into my life and I had and have so much joy and peace and now know that through Jesus when I die I will be with Him in Heaven. Hey Jesus loves each of you also and yall can know Him if you are at all open. Just cry out to Him and a good question to ask yourself if you were to die today would you go to heaven ? And if yes why ? To find out more please read the Gospel of John in the Bible or check out the movie on RUclips. 😀
This guy was so damn intelligent and cool. Miss him.
He loved Hollywood. In Roxy by Proxy he said "it's wonderful to live in Hollywood and be a part of this community because there are so many perverts, you know. And perverts help normal people look good"
I actually enjoy Frank’s insights more than his music this guy is a treasure
He's a philosopher that had a band. But he was a philosopher first in my opinion.
“I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.” - George Carlin
Do you think Frank Zappa and George Carlin would've gotten along?
PINK GORILLAZ ALBUM Great question, and something I’ve long considered. My guess is that they would have. The similarities far outweighed the differences. And yet, FZ would have undoubtedly disagreed with Carlin’s drug and alcohol usage, and Carlin would’ve undoubtedly disagreed with FZ’s views on voting.
grimble I think it’s the opposite though with the same result: free-market capitalist oligarchy.
grimble Exactly. A dead rose by another other name still smells like shit 🤣
@@spb7883 It's not free market capitalism at all. It's crony capitalism, which is anathema to an actual free market.
Crony capitalism, (the very essence of the Washington "swamp") is, by all intents and purposes, socialism for the mega rich!
True. When you’re intelligent you find yourself alone, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Tragic that this is still extremely relevant today!
"The more you know, the less you like it.' I know the feeling.
Same.
There was a quote from the Simpsons where Lisa said to Homer: 'Dad, as intelligence goes up, happiness goes down.' Isn't that the truth....
It's literally a quote from the Bible.
''For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.''
Ecclesiastes 1:18
@@janjansen7983 Oh f**k! man, What are you saying with that?, Religion is the first that wants you to be an ignorant because if you're smart then you realize that all of the bible is bullexcretions.
@@JP-xd6fm What do you want me to say? There is no new thing under the sun. Religion has nothing to do with it, but people like you never seem to get that. You will find out one day, too, I guess
RIP you magnificent Dancin' Fool.
he was such a class act
That part starting at 1:12 where he says "you have none of the problems of people who know more than you do because the more you know, the less you like it" reminds me of the quote by Lisa Simpson - "Dad as intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down." Groening was a big Zappa and Beefheart fan.
Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise.
@@arleighhelfer49 "Twas ever thus" ---- Mr. Natural
Yet I do know plenty of truly intelligent, happy people. Usually they are quite wise.
well, yes and no. There is the kind of knowledge that once you acquire, you just _can't_ go back. Zappa is on the pessimistic side of the equation. I'm not saying he is wrong, I'm saying he choses to see the bottle half-empty many times.
@@panagiotisatmatzidis9972 I think he called it "having a healthy amount of cynicism"
I wish Frank was still with us. 🥺
Dweezil’s still alive and shredding..........I know, it’s not the same. Frank was one of a kind. 🎸
I think so too ! You got the right words !
Me too RIP Frank
Ya GOTTA Love this Man!! If not for his Fantastic Legacy of Music, then, for his Honesty!!
Like Great Movies, ya gotta hear Frank's Albums a Couple times to Appreciate & Marvel at & for his work!!
A True Genius!!
FZ was a genius in his own time era and beyond.
"Everybody should be happy with what they've got"....Another gem of insight from Mr. Zappa.
I love Frank Zappa.
Words of wisdom. I miss him so.
I’m smart enough to be aware of my own ignorance and hypocrisy. I am alone among a horde of people who will never admit that to themselves.
Not alone, but we're isolated.
Just don't let them drag you down, don't waste you're time on them either and look for communities of similar minded people.
I am there too
me as well brother, just be strong!
+Unknown Filmmaker: "At least I know that I don't know/Question is are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid/Hope so" - Eminem, "Berzerk."
Words of wisdom.
I love this guy and miss his wisdom.
What a man ,I hate life couches and all that mambo jambo crap but this man was like a ancient guru,rip Zappa
Holy smokes.....i gotta listen to this a few times this beautiful morning.....Us dummies take a lil longer to get it.....but once we do....You cant take it from us.....Rome wasn't built in a day either....And if you don't particularly like Franks music, its very hard not to appreciate his authenticity....(and genius) Tell it like it is.....Whether your Smart or Dumb......Remember, we make are own Truth.....be True to you....than to others if possible...R.I.P Mr. Zappa and thank you.....
Well said, and 100% true.
@@bigswingface5847 and the more you know......the less you like it...... ignorance is bliss I suppose.....but there s a catch there too!......Frank knew stuff we dont......the Man on the Silver ⛰......I truly should take more time and look more into his music.....He was alone....FRANK.....His music will be here for many many more years for the People......
There's an African word that pretty much sums it all up.....Ubuntu..."I am what I am, because of who we all are".
i don't think that is what he was talking about at all, but also we are not who we are because of what everyone does, we don't even know everyone (and most people don't help each other at all, if that is what you were getting at)
Decades later, I still enjoy a few things from English lit class in high school, but "The Real Frank Zappa Book" still occupies a space on the shelf, right next to "Animal Farm." Both are pretty good guides as to what you're going to see out there in the world.
Is there advices for good life?
Like Zappa so I read it.
Wish I would’ve found out about this guy before I made certain decisions in my life, very wise man. Rip
I began listening to his music in the 80's and I still enjoy it, but that is one of the smartest minute and twenty five seconds I've ever heard. I wish someone had told me that when I was 14, at the age when little things can make a big difference. Losing him so early was a big loss for the entire culture.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being yourself, i.e. who you are as a person, it is way more cooler to just be yourself than something you are not.
Yes, but it's also important to remember that you don't have to remain a version of yourself that you're not happy with. People can change.
Think for yourselves, people.
There's alot of people who seem incapable of thinking for themselves. It's why tv is fundamental to so many
The man had wisdom in spades...
He was so cool.
I do not consider myself exceptional in any way mentally, however I related very much to the idea of "dumbing yourself down" to sort of blend in.
When I was younger I always passed standardized tests with ease, but slacked off in class to fly under the radar. I don't like attention, and I certainly don't like being given praise that I feel is unwarranted. So I continued for years to, in a way, suppress myself. It changed me fundamentally, and it's a habit I'm still trying to shake off to this day.
In a way, though. It's nice this way. I've found that by suppressing my natural reactions to things I give myself time to experience them in a different way. It can be eye opening, and can make you an easier going person.
A smart man showing there's nothing wrong to be smart.
Omg, where was this interview when I was a kid,,,1974 ish…..I remember being in the mentally gifted minors, ,,, i was way
smarter than my friends,,,,,,but,,, I really wanted to fit in…. Dammit. I needed to hear this in 74. Big fan. As a senior i submitted Dyna Moe hum to my poetry teacher in 79,,, Much Love Frank.
never in my life heard such honesty
FRANK ZAPPA ZAPPA ZAPPA HOW WE NEED YOU NEED YOU NEED YOU NOW !
RIP dude.
omg...this man is THE prophet
I wish trauma didn't bring us here
Don't wanna sound like one of those shitty pseudo intellectual kids but it really struck me when he mentioned that you shouldn't dumb yourself down just to be friends with people. I've always wanted a friend who knew a lot so we can share information and have engaging conversations and further our talents but I have found 0 people like that. Instead I try my best to appease my school friends with dumb humor and admittedly I'm unhappy. It's made a definition of a friend incredibly superficial to me, it's just someone who hangs out with you, and that's obviously no real friend
it is really hard to find a truly good friend in life who we can talk with about all kinds of interesting things too, i hope life works out really good for you.. it's best to build up doing the things we love and find interesting, at least that way we don't regret not trying to do those things, and through time those skills can help us in life too, and can also help us meet people at can relate with
Good luck with you pursuing doing what you love i hope!
my biggest mistake was just not trying to do the things that i felt would be good to do, due to other peoples cynicism or guilt trips when i wanted to fly fast jets and was surrounded by pacifists.. but really they saved me from doing harm in this world maybe.. and I've started doing my songwriting again after getting diverted in life for years.. but my best advice, given based on my regrets, is it is best to try to do things you love or are interested in and ignore people who try to tell you what you should study or work on or do etc.. only you can know best what you would like to do in life or in your days and it's best to trust and do what your instincts and gut feeling and drives are telling you you would like to do and build up in your life
and avoid people who are mean to you on purpose or seem to enjoy mocking you.. they might say they are friends but they can't be trusted if they do that
I've got lots of other things i can think of but i can't mention the RUclips channel i run where i talk about things like that as i would get even more shadowbanned than i am for my political statements for then spamming comments sections! it's not the one I'm posting this from
but i think it's really important to look at yourself and tell yourself you are doing Great in what can be a tough world and then just please try to enjoy life too douing things you would like to do, even small things you would like to do in your day or see or experience, and it all adds up to create a good set of memories that you did things you wanted to try to do in your life, then even if things don't work out you don't have the regard lregrets of not trying to do things you felt you would have liked to try to do, and you can always change your direction at any time you feel you want to and try other things, and all that experience adds up into more knowledge and more skills and more memories and hopefully good friends and love etc
Good luck!! i hope life will be Really good for you and for anyone who ever reads this in future
I had to pretend to be dumb to get through school.
I needed to hear this lol. I wish more than anything that I could escape the identity society has molded for me, live up to my potential, express my creativity and be true to myself. I just feel so isolated, so completely alone when I don’t try to act like everyone else
+Johnathan White: I needed to hear this when I was entering high school, but the "Kill Ugly Radio Some More" sampler, which includes this, came out when I was in college.
It’s a tough station. But the truth is, once you step outside your prescribed circle, you’ll find others who share the same outlook. Good luck!
I needed this video, I can tell me and Zappa are similar mindset.
Beautiful.
"It's fashionable to disparage people who are smart" this will (sadly) never not be true
Thanks, only one Frank Zappa !
my interpretation: behave as if i’m smart but assume i’m a dumbo. keeps the inevitable arrogance at bay... frank will always be my hero rip
Ignorance I think u mean
I try to refrain on the depth of knowledge I know because.....it goes over people's heads....I learn all the time.
Brilliant.
i really need to hear that becuase when you have everything you feel like you need more and dont even realize what u already have
AMAZING.
I do not watch television or drink beer or watch the hockey.
Thank you for validating me Mr Zappa.....
Zappa lives!!!
Wise words.
Well I guess Frank and me meet up around the sense of where we were.
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." Frank Zappa
Thank you Mr. Zappa!!!!!! Those of us who were blessed enough to realize your genius wish you were still here!!!
PREACH, Brother Frank!!!
Wow. Very interesting topic/discussion...
They place this on WCSB 89.3 FM Cleveland State University radio.
Thank you Frank Zappa for reminding me I’m smart because I don’t love to sit in front of the television, drink beer and watch hockey.
Thank you, Frank!
Said 40 years ago, and 7 years after he wrote "Find Her Finer."
You is what you is
True words.
Thanks ZAP
So true
The more you know the less you like it...brilliant lol
They say “ignorance is bliss” for a reason.
This is a song right? Because it was music to my ears... And then a deep sadness filled my heart.
+gyp darin: It was from an interview with Ben Manilla for WLIR-FM, a talk radio station in Hampton Bays, New York, which is on Long Island. This was only released on a 1995 sampler CD titled "Kill Ugly Radio Some More," which was the sequel to "Kill Ugly Radio" and was followed by "Return Of The Son Of Kill Ugly Radio." The titling is in the tradition of three guitar solo albums Zappa released in the early 1980s: "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar," "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More" and "Return Of The Son Of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar."
As a beer drinking sports watcher, I feel attacked
"The more you know, the less ya like it..!"
Prophet FZee
No, prophet Erasmus from Rotterdam.
The more you know, the less you like it, eh?
Best human
What Carlin never realized, is he can form his own opinion BECAUSE he is an American.
Not exactly. Anyone can form their own opinion it’s just some governments kill you for it. Even in this country, it’s the illusion of being free. Abortion and marijuana just failed to pass in Florida even though both amendments polled well over 50% . The people spoke and the government said “yeah fuck you my dicks bigger” as George would say lol.
He would hate living in the 2020s....
I stand and clap!
When they made Frank Zappa, they broke the mold--or as Zappa might say, they threw away the shovel!
I don't like the suggestion that if I sit in front of the TV, drink beer, and watch hockey, that I'm dumb. Go Wings!
It’s true. It’s all true.
It's not ok to be cruel
He was right about the slime
Rest in peace
Cool 😎
I 100% understand when he talks about acting dumb for other people.
"Anybody who had an IQ over 28, let's say, people would say was probably a threat to the community." Well, then I can proudly say I was never a threat to anybody.
"A lot of people who were born smart pretend to be dumb so that they can have friends." Wow.
This is the #1 skill kids develop in order to survive in the United States school system.
Where is the larger interview this was excerpted from?
you are what you are wether you like it or not
It's okay to be smart, but it's not okay to eat that yellow snow.
+David: Don't be a naughty Eskimo.
"And, ultimately, who gives a fuck anyway"
The Central Scrutinizer (Joe's Garage, acts I, II and III)
I would never call myself intelligent, but others have certainly said I was. However, I've never tried to play dumber than I am, just to maintain friendships.
And consequently, I've never been popular or had a lot of friends. So the question is: would I be happier if I pretended to be dumb enough to watch TV
and drink beer all day? I'd still be alone, but I'd be free from the pressures of having to perform...
Thats how I always felt about sports. Whether a grown man catches a ball or doesn't has no impact in my life whatsoever. Perhaps if i was betting, but i never bet
My god. FZ is so brutally honest. It's depressing to care, but I can't help it. I am astounded, and saddened by the fact that our political leaders in this country are picked mostly on the basis of campaign slogans by people unwilling or unable to think for themselves.
@Zolar Czakl I started to get involved in local politics. At the local level there are a lot of clueless people in elected office. This is the pool from which national candidates are drawn. Those tend to be people who, if they are capable of learning anything, it is only how to get elected.
i like hockey and beer....ummm...
He shoots, he scores!
truth
Nice...I can do relate
intelligence is just one facet of a personality. dumb people are not worse, they're just dumb
I know sole lovely dumb people who are lovely because they know their limitations and know when to ask for help.
What is considered intelligence a doctor or mechanic an engineer a carpenter a chemist an hvac tech again I ask what is considered intelligent
Frank Zappa was the second coming....
In other words be yourself!
Frank looks like Borat.
Vice versa
Now that you mention it.......
Have Frank Zappa and Borat ever been seen in the same room together?
110%
Also if ya dig and enjoyed this by Frank Zappa 😀 you may also enjoy the song " Most of All " By Glenn Kaiser and Where Roses Grow Live by Rez Band Awesome songs check them out. I remember hearing the song by Led Zepp " In My Time of Dyin " during my drug years and made me think about death and Jesus. Then a hippy friend that dug Jesus told me more of Jesus love and forgiveness and how I could also know Jesus love. So in 1981 I cried out to Jesus and wow man He came into my life and I had and have so much joy and peace and now know that through Jesus when I die I will be with Him in Heaven. Hey Jesus loves each of you also and yall can know Him if you are at all open. Just cry out to Him and a good question to ask yourself if you were to die today would you go to heaven ? And if yes why ? To find out more please read the Gospel of John in the Bible or check out the movie on RUclips. 😀
Zappa is King...whos elvis....love NZ
Who is "NZ"?Is that another artist or did you mean to type FZ for Frank Zappa?
Jesus does this hit home in 2021
🤯