Don Van Vliet Quotes & Sayings

If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school. — Don Van Vliet

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. — Don Van Vliet

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it. — Don Van Vliet

If you got ears, you gotta listen. — Don Van Vliet

Be kind, man - don't be mankind. — Don Van Vliet

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat. — Don Van Vliet

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond. — Don Van Vliet

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall. — Don Van Vliet

Well, the way you'd been, old lady
I could see the fear in your windows
Under your furry crawling brow
A silver bow rings up in inches
You were afraid you'd be the devil's red wife
But it's alright, God dug your dance
And would have you young and in his harum — Don Van Vliet

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid. — Don Van Vliet

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes. — Don Van Vliet

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind. — Don Van Vliet

I like the blues ... but I like aqua marine just as much. — Don Van Vliet

I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland. — Don Van Vliet

Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloating
Full in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletons
Various species grouped together according
To their past beliefs
The only way they ever all got together was
Not in love but shameful grief — Don Van Vliet

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate. — Don Van Vliet