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Captain Beefheart [1941-2010] American
Rank: 102
Musician, Singer-songwriter


Don Van Vliet was an American singer, songwriter, musician and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called the Magic Band, with whom he recorded 13 studio albums. 

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The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
102
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am. Intelligence
103
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.
104
We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
105
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
106
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
107
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
108
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
109
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.
110
I don't do lullabyes.
111
If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
114
With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
115
I'm interested in playing, not working.
116
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.
117
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.
118
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
119
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.
120
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.
121
I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles. Car
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
123
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 have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
125
I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
126
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.
201
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
202
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
203
An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
204
We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
205
I don't know anything about music.
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