Captain Beefheart Quotes

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

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

I don't do lullabyes.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I don't know anything about music.

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'm interested in playing, not working.

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.