Quotes by Captain Beefheart - Page 1

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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Band
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Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
Captain Beefheart /
Guilt
Rock And Roll
Product
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An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
Captain Beefheart /
Lift
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If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
Captain Beefheart /
School
Fish
Jump
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
Captain Beefheart /
Intelligence
Smart
Dolphin
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
Captain Beefheart /
Able
Anyone
Colored
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I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
Captain Beefheart /
Animals
Neighbours
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The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
Captain Beefheart /
Matter
Stars
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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Dog
Should
Human
Tell
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
Captain Beefheart /
Wind
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
Captain Beefheart /
Schizophrenic
Vicious
Obviously
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Captain Beefheart /
Mobile
Cabin
Except
Log
Log Cabin
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
Captain Beefheart /
Dylan
Bob Dylan
Gonna
Slug
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
Captain Beefheart /
Eye
Moon
Animals
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I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
Captain Beefheart /
Car
Driving
Automobiles
Inadvertently
Living Thing
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
Captain Beefheart /
Contributing
Sameness
Did
Else
Everybody Else
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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 /
Painting
Anybody Else
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart /
Starving
Churches
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart /
Neglected
Myself Me Parents
Purge
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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 /
Animal
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
Captain Beefheart /
Frightening
Shakespeare
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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 /
Clock
Correctly
James
Lower
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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 /
House
Paper
Rich
Stuff
Toilet Paper
Weird
Judge
Almost
Somebody
Coloured
Toilet
Screwed
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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 /
Desert
Fool
Tan
Animals
Night Look Day
Indoors
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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.
Captain Beefheart /
Audience
England
Jerk
Nice Guy
Rotten
Smart
Big Fan
Fan
Johnny
Mine
Stand Up
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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 /
Strain
Myself Better Always
Engine
Horn
Tune
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