Don Van Vliet Quotes

Big Eyed Beans From Venus

I live in a Mobile Home - I`ve never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

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

I don`t think artists are made, I think they`re born.

The stars are matter, we`re matter, but it doesn`t matter.

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.

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It`s always changing.

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

I`d rather play a tune on a horn, but I`ve always felt that I didn`t want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you`ve got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it`s better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

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.

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

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it`s some weird coloured embossed stuff.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn`t neglected enough as a child.

I`m interested in playing, not working.

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.

I`d never just want to do what everybody else did. I`d be contributing to the sameness of everything.

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

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

When I see a dolphin, I know it`s just as smart as I am.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

I don`t do lullabyes.

Johnny Rotten. He`s a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he`d stand up and holler. He`s funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don`t think he`s a jerk because he isn`t.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.