Don Van Vliet Quotes

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.

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

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles.

It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

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

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

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'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.

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 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.

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.

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

Earth ... God's golf ball.

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

I think Shakespeare is really the one.

Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

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

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

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

The earth is Godʹs golf ball.

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

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.

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

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

I don't do lullabyes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm interested in playing, not working.

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

If you got ears, you gotta listen.

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