Thinking Quotes by Don Van Vliet

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

— Don Van Vliet

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what…

— Don Van Vliet

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

— Don Van Vliet

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

— Don Van Vliet

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

— Don Van Vliet

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

— Don Van Vliet

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

— Don Van Vliet

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

— Don Van Vliet

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

— Don Van Vliet

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

— Don Van Vliet

Earth ... God's golf ball.

— Don Van Vliet

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

— Don Van Vliet