Captain Beefheart Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

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#4. May the Baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind.

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

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#6. 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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#7. Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

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#8. I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

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

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#12. 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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#13. I don't know anything about music.

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#14. I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

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#15. I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

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

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#17. I don't do lullabyes.

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#18. When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

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#19. But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

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

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

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

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#23. Step out of a triangle, into striped light!

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

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#25. Everyone's colored, or you wouldn't be able to see them.

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

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

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#31. I'm interested in playing, not working.

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#32. An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

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#33. I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

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#34. 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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#35. I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

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