Captain Beefheart Quotes
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
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We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.
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For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
