Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
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
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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
Captain Beefheart

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

Captain Beefheart
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
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
Captain Beefheart

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.

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

I don't know anything about music.

Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart

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