Don Van Vliet quotes
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“When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.”
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“You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.”
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“The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.”
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“I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.”
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“Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.”
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“I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.”
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“I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.”
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“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.”
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“There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.”
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“The stars are matter, We're matter, But it doesn't matter.”
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“It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.”
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“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.”
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“I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.”
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“I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.”
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“I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.”
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“Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.”
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“If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.”
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“I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.”
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“I don't do lullabyes.”
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“I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.”
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“I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.”
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“That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.”
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“With my voice and my band, I can do anything.”
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“The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.”
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“We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.”
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“If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.”
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“Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.”
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“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.”
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“I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.”
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“But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.”
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“I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.”
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“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.”
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“I'm interested in playing, not working.”
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“If you got ears, you gotta listen.”
-- Don Van VlietSource : Song: Dirty Blue Gene
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“We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.”
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