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Eat That Question

And the first questionthat we'd like to ask you is, how did you start out in the music...

And the first question
that we'd like to ask you is, how did you start out in the music business, and how old were you
when you first got started?

Full Transcript

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And the first question that we'd like to ask you is,
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how did you start out in the music business,
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and how old were you when you first got started?
Duration
9 seconds
Views
36
Timestamp in Movie
00:06:22
Uploaded
Nov 02, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
Production
Les Films du Poisson,UFA Fiction,SWR,ARTE

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Movie Summary

An in-depth look at the life and work of avant-garde musician, Frank Zappa.
Well, the first time I ever got paid for playing music - Eat That Question 00:07
Well, the first time I ever got paid for playing music
And I started off as a drummer, - Eat That Question 00:08
And I started off as a drummer,
We used to rehearse over at this preacher's house, - Eat That Question 00:16
We used to rehearse over at this preacher's house,
I was reading about the first time you ever composed a piece of music. - Eat That Question 00:06
I was reading about the first time you ever composed a piece...
And I don't know if it was really a piece of music, - Eat That Question 00:11
And I don't know if it was really a piece of music,
I always thought music looked nice on paper, - Eat That Question 00:09
I always thought music looked nice on paper,
They were the wrong color, so I couldn't pass 'em, - Eat That Question 00:06
They were the wrong color, so I couldn't pass 'em,
I figured, well, if I could just draw those things on the paper, - Eat That Question 00:10
I figured, well, if I could just draw those things on the pa...
Yeah. I didn't write a rock-and-roll song until I was about 21 or 22 years old. - Eat That Question 00:07
Yeah. I didn't write a rock-and-roll song until I was a...
And prior to that time, the only thing that I was writing - Eat That Question 00:06
And prior to that time, the only thing that I was writing
You play a bicycle? - Eat That Question 00:15
You play a bicycle?
He probably was selling insurance or something, - Eat That Question 00:32
He probably was selling insurance or something,
Now, the tape is pre-recorded electric noises that I stuck together. - Eat That Question 00:07
Now, the tape is pre-recorded electric noises that I stuck t...
But now the... The way we work this is, - Eat That Question 00:20
But now the... The way we work this is,
I must say that I am always in favor of enlarging the horizons, - Eat That Question 00:29
I must say that I am always in favor of enlarging the horizo...
They're interested in working with their hands, - Eat That Question 00:06
They're interested in working with their hands,
Now, when you want to play music - Eat That Question 00:12
Now, when you want to play music
They don't make it easy for you to be a musician. - Eat That Question 00:05
They don't make it easy for you to be a musician.
In the United States especially, - Eat That Question 00:17
In the United States especially,
But musicians usually are regarded as sort of the scum of the earth, - Eat That Question 00:17
But musicians usually are regarded as sort of the scum of th...