Words matter. These are the best Captain Beefheart Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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 don’t do lullabyes.
I live in a Mobile Home – I’ve never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
We see the moon, don’t we? So it’s our eye. Animals see us, don’t they? So we’re their animals.
The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It’s always changing.
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.
I’d never just want to do what everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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.
If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
I don’t like getting out when I could be painting. And when I’m painting, I don’t want anybody else around.
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.
When I see a dolphin, I know it’s just as smart as I am.
We’re all colored, or you wouldn’t be able to see anyone.
I don’t think artists are made, I think they’re born.
I’m interested in playing, not working.
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I’ve looked outside and seen people starving to death.
An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn’t neglected enough as a child.
That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as… well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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 think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
