Top 32 Quotes by Captain Beefheart

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.

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

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

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

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

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.