Name	Don Van Vliet
Age	68
Date of Birth	January 15, 1941
Birthplace	Glendale, California
Star Sign	Capricorn
Nationality	American
Occupation	Musician
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Claim to Fame	Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
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Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

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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.

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I don`t do lullabyes.

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

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

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I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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I`m interested in playing, not working.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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