Top 32 Quotes by Captain Beefheart

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.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

I don't do lullabyes.

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

I'm interested in playing, not working.

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.

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

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.

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

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