According to an apocryphal tale from this era, in a televised face-off, either Capp ( on the Dick Cavett Show ) or ( more commonly ) conservative talk show host Joe Pyne ( on his own show ) is supposed to have taunted iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa about his long hair, asking Zappa if he thought he was a girl.

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

According to tradition, Rumi was himself a notable musician who played the robāb, although his favorite instrument was the ney or reed flute.

According to John Sobol, the jazz musician and poet who wrote Digitopia Blues, rap " bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of jazz both stylistically and formally.

According to musician and author Albin Zak, the combination of the studio — engineered by Bill Porter, who experimented with close miking the doo-wop backup singers — production by Foster, and accompanying musicians, gave Orbison's music a " polished, professional sound ... finally allow ( ing ) Orbison's stylistic inclinations free rein ".

According to the folklore of that time, for a samba musician to achieve success, he would have to pass the house of Tia Ciata and be approved on the rodas de samba.

According to the John Swenson biography of Haley, the musician was quoted as saying that he and Pompilli had an agreement that if one died, the other would retire.

According to Allmusic, Jones " has left his mark on rock & roll music history as an innovative musician, arranger, and director.

According to biographer Kelley, the 1964 Time appearance came because " Barry Farrell, who wrote the cover story, wanted to write about a jazz musician and almost by default Monk was chosen, because they thought Ray Charles and Miles Davis were too controversial.

According to a black musician who lived near Rodgers in Mississippi, everyone, both black and white alike, began to copy Rodgers: " Every one who could pick a guitar started yodeling like Rodgers.

According to contemporary musician, Dave Warner, " hey had a clean-cut boys-next door image ; a big contrast to the bad boy, weirdo, heavy-riff persona favoured by their peers ".

* According to American activist folk musician Pete Seeger, Jeanette Turner did a loose English translation, " a singable translation " of the poem in with a different title, I Come And Stand At Every Door and sent a note to Seeger asking " Do you think you could make a tune for it?

According to Ernst Meyer, Cooper was a Londoner who italianized his name as Italian music and musicians became more fashionable, and spent much of his life as a musician in the royal court.

According to Lacey in a radio interview from the UK ( BBC Radio 1 with Zane Lowe ), the title The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is taken from a conversation he had with his friend about the musician Daniel Johnston, who has bipolar disorder.

According to musician and writer Billy Vera :" Rock ' n ' roll was an evolutionary process – we just looked around and it was here .... To name any one record as the first would make any of us look a fool.

According to Garth Cartwright, he was " the first Balkan Gypsy musician to win a wide international following with his two Joe Boyd-produced albums for Hannibal Records in the early 1990s.

According to a spokesperson for the Police Department, the musician was staying with two friends.

According to the words of Alexandra Permyakova, today ’ s chief musician of Pyatnitsky Choir, these songs made the Choir famous.

According to Stojowski, however, in a December 1901 interview that appeared in a Warsaw magazine, the teachers who had the most profound influence on him as a musician were the Polish violinist-composer Wladyslaw Gorski and pianist-composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

“ When I met him in the mid-50s ,” wrote jazz musician David Amram, Carr “ was so sophisticated and worldly and fun to be with that even while you always felt at home with him, you knew he was always one step ahead and expected you to follow .” According to Amram, Carr remained loyal to Kerouac to the end of the older man ’ s life, even as Kerouac descended into alienation and alcoholism.

According to Keith Richards, " Finally someone has captured the central feel of this master musician and his times, and that man is Alan Greenberg.

According to the 2001 Kurt Cobain biography, Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross, Cobain wrote the lyrics to " Aneurysm " about his ex-girlfriend, musician Tobi Vail.

According to Wyn Jones, in his prime he was " the single most influential musician in Vienna ".

According to Bio TV, Dave claims himself that people nicknamed his daughter " Wenda.

According to Dave Ulmer's message, the original stash was a black plastic bucket buried most of the way in the ground and contained software, videos, books, food, money, and a slingshot.

According to rock critic Dave Marsh, the attitude and public persona of punk rock can be traced to Jan and Dean.

According to Dave Filoni, supervising director of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the look of the Police ' droid is based on the appearance of the Keystone Kops.

According to Dave Farber, he, Griswold and Polonsky " finally arrived at the name Symbolic EXpression Interpreter SEXI.

According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act.

According to the pianist ’ s son Dave Guaraldi, Vince was adopted by Tony Guaraldi, after Vince ’ s mother, Cannella Guaraldi, née Marcellino, split with his biological father, Vince Delaio ( sp ?).

According to Dave Haynie, the A600 " was supposed to be cheaper than the A500, but it came in at about that much more expensive than the A500.

According to Dave Doyle at the National Geodetic Survey, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the common corner of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, at The Wedge is marked by Boundary Monument # 87.

According to Dave Thomas ' account in SCTV: Behind The Scenes, various ideas were batted around, then — and here's where meeting attendees remember things differently — either Close or Patinkin came up with the idea of presenting programming from the world's smallest TV station.

" According to Dave Bowler and Bryan Dray's biography of The Cure, the school also expelled ex-Malice co-founder Marc Ceccagno along with Smith, whose new band Amulet had also played the December school show.

According to members of The Damned, Vicious was considered, along with Dave Vanian, for the position of lead singer for the Damned, but Sid failed to show up for the audition.

According to a special issue of Kerrang !, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl turned down an approach by the band.

According to Sam Moore of the soul duo Sam & Dave, " He gave me one pork chop, one scoop of macaroni and cheese, and one spoonful of gravy.

According to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Sam & Dave were the most successful soul duo, and brought the sounds of the black gospel church to pop music with their call-and-response records.

According to Redding's and Sam & Dave's manager Phil Walden, Redding refused to be booked on the same bill with Sam & Dave again, not wanting to have to follow their explosive act.

According to the Boston Herald, race director Dave McGillivray said he was sending paperwork to the IAAF to have Mutai's mark ratified as a world record.

According to development engineer Dave Lauzun, during construction, the Karmann-made tops are dropped into a body that is largely identical: both soft-top and retractable feature the same automatic tonneau cover, luggage divider and luggage space.

According to Dave Haslam, the festival demonstrated that " the city had become synonymous with ... larger-than-life characters playing cutting edge music ...

According to Dave Haslam: " Ecstasy use changed clubs forever ; a night at the Haçienda went from being a great night out, to an intense, life changing experience ".

According to series creator Ron Gilbert, Schafer and fellow writer-programmer Dave Grossman were responsible for about two thirds of the game's dialogue.

According to the group's website, McCartney got the inspiration for Promise Keepers on March 20, 1990, while he was attending a Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet in Pueblo, Colorado, during a conversation with Dave Wardell, who was also in attendance at the event.

According to its inventor Dave Lampert, the Sybian was first conceived in the 1970s but it was not until 1983 that he began to develop the idea further.

** According to one of the engineers on the design team of the HP48G series ( Dave Arnett ), the yields for 4MHz CPUs were essentially separated into two parts: the ones closest to spec, generally near 3. 93-3. 94MHz, were reserved for the expandable models ( GX ), and those just slightly under spec were used for the non-expandable units ( G ).

According to GM historian Dave Newell, Chevrolet had planned on ending Corvair production after the 1966 model year.