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Ringo
 Post subject: FZ Quotes?
PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:15 am 
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Frank has some wonderful quotes credited to him such as:

Quote:
A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work unless its open


Quote:
Without deviation, progress is not possible


However, I don't think I've ever come across a recording or interview where Frank said this. Can anyone provide the source of these quotes and any of the other famous ones?
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Mr_Green_Genes
 Post subject: Re: FZ Quotes?
PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:38 am 
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The first one is almost certainly not his, IMHO, Although he could have used it, I believe it could be modified from this original quotation:

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One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- It is by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, but often attributed to Einstein...

The progress one, I believe somehow I 'heard' from FZ somewhere, but I have no solid reference to it...

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:58 pm 
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"electric bassists are often failed guitar players, demoted to this duty after a band meeting in a garage when they were thirteen. "
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