Don Van Vliet Quotes

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

Gonna, Bob, Slug

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Don Van Vliet

Parents, Enough, Child

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
Don Van Vliet

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.
Don Van Vliet

Money, Made, Sure

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

Kindness, Human, Tell

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

Death, Beautiful, Seen

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
Don Van Vliet

Everything, Else, Everybody

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
Don Van Vliet

Intelligence, Smart, Dolphin

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
Don Van Vliet

School, Different, Fish

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

Through, Eyes, Try

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.
Don Van Vliet

Yourself, Play, Rather

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

Music, Good, Everything

I'm interested in playing, not working.
Don Van Vliet

Working, Playing, Interested

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.
Don Van Vliet

Done, Dangerous, Himself

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
Don Van Vliet

Rock, Guilt, Modern

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.
Don Van Vliet

Judge, Rich, Weird

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

Off, Stage, Audience

I don't do lullabyes.
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.
Don Van Vliet

Around, Else, Getting

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.
Don Van Vliet

Fool, Person, Night

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

Made, Born, Artists

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
Don Van Vliet

Trees, Neighbours

I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Don Van Vliet

Home, Live, Once

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

Car, Living, While

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.
Don Van Vliet

Good, Important, Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 15, 1941

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