Top 32 Quotes by Captain Beefheart

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.

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

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.

I don't know anything about music.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

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

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

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.

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.

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