36 Quotes by Captain Beefheart

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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