Frank Zappa — They Are Only In It For The Money

The main thing that I consider before undertaking a work You know, a long orchestral thing like that See, in the old days, before I got a chance to work with a orchestra Before I found out that they are only it it for the money And they're considering only their pensions and the rehearsal breaks And all those other little mechanical things that makes life in a symphony orchestra so delightful When I found that out, it's, it turned me off so bad to writing for that medium Because, uh, the orchestras that I had a chance to work with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic in London Uh, their attitude towards the performance of music in general Seemed to me, uh, wrong You know, they weren't putting enough personal energy into the performance or the music I get a better performance out of the members of the group You know, even though it's only a mere ten pieces I can make it sound like an orchestra with guts And that's the thing that I miss from normal academic orchestral performance It just doesn't have, uh It's not coming from the lower chakras Do you understand what I'm talking about?