Captain Beefheart Quotes

Captain Beefheart

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 15, 1941

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

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The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

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If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

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I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

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I don't do lullabyes.

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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

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