Beefheart Quotes

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

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

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

I'm interested in playing, not working. ~ Captain Beefheart

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

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one. ~ Lester Bangs

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. ~ Patrick Carney

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

With my voice and my band, I can do anything. ~ Captain Beefheart

I don't know anything about music. ~ Captain Beefheart

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. ~ Captain Beefheart

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

There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea. ~ Dave Gahan

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. ~ Captain Beefheart

I don't do lullabyes. ~ Captain Beefheart

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

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

I do like Captain Beefheart (Trout Mask Replica is a misunderstood masterpiece!) and I do have two kids but I've never written a prize winning novel called Oh, Bollocks! ~ Jon Edgell

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

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

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up. ~ P.J. Harvey

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. ~ Captain Beefheart

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. ~ Captain Beefheart

When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album. ~ Mark Mothersbaugh

My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves! I couldn't believe it. She took care of her records. Rachmaninov, Beefheart. For me, most of my records were out of their sleeves and in a drawer somewhere. I married a record collection. ~ Tom Waits