Don Van Vliet Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

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

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.

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

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

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.

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

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

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

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

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

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

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

If you got ears, you gotta listen.

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

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

Earth ... God's golf ball.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't do lullabyes.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

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

I'm interested in playing, not working.

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

The earth is Godʹs golf ball.