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Captain Beefheart Quotes

1941–2010 United States

Captain Beefheart, stage name of Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician and painter.

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A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?

Trout Mask Replica (1969)

That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!

Trout Mask Replica (1969)

You look dandy in the sky but you don’t scare me
Cause I got you here in my eye
In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues

Trout Mask Replica (1969)

Pena, sung by Jeff Cotton, better known as Antennae Jimmy Semens

Trout Mask Replica (1969)

"I've written every drum bit I ever done, every note. I played the drums. I played the guitar. I played the piano. I wanted it exactly the way I wanted. Exactly. Any composer I would think would want it that way, and I don't deviate at all. Don't you think that somebody like Stravinsky, for instance, don't you think that it would have annoyed him if someone bent a note the wrong way?"

The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Captain Beefheart (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.