Quotes from Captain Beefheart


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I'm interested in playing, not working.


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.


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


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.


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.


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


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


I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.


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


I don't know anything about music.


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


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


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


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.


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


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


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


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.


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