Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Captain Beefheart
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Captain Beefheart.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I'm interested in playing, not working.
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
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.
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.
That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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.
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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.
I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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.
I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
I don't know anything about music.
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
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.
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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.
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
I don't do lullabyes.
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