Don Van Vliet Quotes

I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

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

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.

Earth ... God's golf ball.

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

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

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

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

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

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

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

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

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

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

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

I'm interested in playing, not working.

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

The stars are matter, We're matter, But it doesn't matter.

I don't do lullabyes.

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

I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.

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

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

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

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

The earth is Godʹs golf ball.

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 got ears, you gotta listen.

If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

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