Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Don Van Vliet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Don Van Vliet.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Don Van Vliet was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. Conducting a rotating ensemble called Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, known separately as The Magic Band, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1964 and 1982. His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock, and avant-garde composition with idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist wordplay, a loud, gravelly voice, and his claimed wide vocal range, though reports of it have varied from three octaves to seven and a half. Known for his enigmatic persona, Beefheart frequently constructed myths about his life and was known to exercise an almost dictatorial control over his supporting musicians. Although he achieved little commercial success, he sustained a cult following as a "highly significant" and "incalculable" influence on an array of new wave, punk, and experimental rock artists.

American - Musician | January 15, 1941 - December 17, 2010

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The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

Don Van Vliet

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

Don Van Vliet

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

Don Van Vliet

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

Don Van Vliet

If you got ears, you gotta listen.

Don Van Vliet

The earth is God?s golf ball.

Don Van Vliet

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

Don Van Vliet

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.

Don Van Vliet

I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

Don Van Vliet

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

Don Van Vliet

Earth ... God's golf ball.

Don Van Vliet

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

Don Van Vliet

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

Don Van Vliet

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

Don Van Vliet

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Don Van Vliet

I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.

Don Van Vliet