Don Van Vliet Quotes
"That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too."
- Don Van Vliet
"The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Stars)
"The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Sound, Wind)
"When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am."
- Don Van Vliet
"With my voice and my band, I can do anything."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Voice)
"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Kindness)
"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
(Related: Animals, Man)
"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
"I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Home)
"An audience can really lift you right up off the stage."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Right)
"But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Death, People, Churches)
"I don't do lullabyes."
- 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
(Related: Money, Sound)
"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
(Related: Animals, Day, Fool, Night)
"Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs."
- Don Van Vliet
"I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Animals, Trees)
"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."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Funny, England)
"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
(Related: Attention, Parents)
"I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: People, Eyes)
"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
(Related: Music, Shakespeare, Words)
"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Automobiles, Driving, Living)
"I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Want)
"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
(Related: Play, Want)
"I'm interested in playing, not working."
- Don Van Vliet
"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
(Related: Mathematics, Wrong)
"I don't think artists are made, I think they're born."
- Don Van Vliet
(Related: Artists)