Captain Beefheart Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't do lullabyes.

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

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

I don't know anything about music.

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

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

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

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

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

I'm interested in playing, not working.

Step out of a triangle, into striped light!

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

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

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

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

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

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

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