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.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

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'm interested in playing, not working.

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

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

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.