Top 25 Captain Beefheart Quotes

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

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

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.

I’m interested in playing, not working.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I don’t know anything about music.

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.

I don’t do lullabyes.

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.