Captain Beefheart Quotes
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.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.
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It's quite rare that you find something that you can quite literally have an absolute ball doing, as well as the tough stuff and the difficult stuff and the pain.
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Interviewer: 'So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?' Jeff (after a long pause): 'Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.'
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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.
