Don Van Vliet Quotes - Page 2

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• The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

  Don Van Vliet

  Wind, Sound, Difficult

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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.

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, Scary, Frightening

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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.

  Don Van Vliet

  Eye, Animal, Moon

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Animal, Men, Done

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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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  Money, Sound, Made

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• Earth ... God's golf ball.

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  Golf, Balls, Earth

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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.

  Don Van Vliet

  Umpires, Judging, House

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

  Don Van Vliet

  School, Different, Want

  "Captain Beefheart: An Artist, A Heartist". Interview with Greg Prevost and Carl Mack, Future Magazine, www.beefheart.com. March 1978.

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• The earth is Godʹs golf ball.

  Don Van Vliet

  Golf, Balls, Earth

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• But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

  Don Van Vliet

  Beautiful, People, Church

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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.

  Don Van Vliet

  Animal, Night, Desert

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

  Don Van Vliet

  Artist, Thinking, Born

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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.

  Don Van Vliet

  Nice, Smart, Thinking

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• I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

  Don Van Vliet

  Ghana, Car, Driving

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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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  People, Drug, Aspirin

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

  Don Van Vliet

  Home, House, Log Cabins

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• I'm interested in playing, not working.

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

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  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Guilt

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• I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

  Don Van Vliet

  Animal, Tree, Neighbour

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

  Don Van Vliet

  Stage, Audience, Lifts

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

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  Voice, Band, Can Do

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

  Don Van Vliet

  Mean, Sids, Kind

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• I don't do lullabyes.

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