"It makes me itch to think of myself……" — Don Van Vliet

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

— Don Van Vliet

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40 Quotes by Don Van Vliet

Don Van Vliet has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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…
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…
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 don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night.…
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any…

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More Beefheart Quotes

This quote is filed under Beefheart Quotes, one of 4 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. — Patrick Carney
My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves!… — Tom Waits
In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images… — Anton Corbijn

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