Don Van Vliet Quotes

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• The earth is Godʹs golf ball.
• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
• 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…
• It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.
• The stars are matter, We're matter, But it doesn't matter.
• There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.
• 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'm interested in playing, not working.
• I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
• But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
• 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 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…
• 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…
• An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
• I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
• 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.
• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
• If you got ears, you gotta listen.
• If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.

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