43 Quotes by Don Van Vliet

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

We see the moon, don’t we? So it’s our eye. Animals see us, don’t they? So we’re their animals.

I don’t do lullabyes.

I don’t even know what sound is, much less what it’s for. It isn’t to make money that’s for sure. I’ve never made any.

The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

I’m interested in playing, not working.

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.

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 think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I’d never just want to do what everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.