Orange
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Orange is one of the constellations on the star map on the back cover of One Size Fits All, printed next to Olney, Wyoming and Huntingpark, referencing the Orange line of the Philadelphia subway system.
Other references to orange (the color and/or the fruit) in Zappa's work
- Orange Colored Sky
- The Orange County Lumber Truck
- Orange Claw Hammer
- An orange can be seen on the cover of Over-Nite Sensation.
- 200 Years Old: "I was sitting in a breakfast room in Allentown, Pennsylvania... (...) Sittin' there face-to-face with a
75¢ glass of orange juice"
- Uncle Meat Film Excerpt: "And I got the bun and the hamburger and the relish and the orange and I've got my clothes off and I'm hot!"
- Botulism On The Hoof: "Listen, how about a little dry cereal? How 'bout a orange juice?"
Quotes
What are your favourite colours?
Frank Zappa: "Avocado green, yellow orange and robin's-egg blue."
Frank Zappa, quoted from The Fanzine Questionnaire, 1966.
"If we consider what most people accept as 'normal behavior' in America today ... stuff like Video Christian fanaticism, drug abuse, enthusiasm for tennis or other activities which cause orange hair, then I definitely qualify for 'abnormality.'" - Frank Zappa in Frank Zappa, 84/8).
