Quotes from Captain Beefheart

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.