Don Van Vliet Quotes

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It's hard to use the English language. 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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Don Van Vliet
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Well, the way you'd been, old lady I could see the fear in your windows Under your furry crawling brow A silver bow rings up in inches You were afraid you'd be the devil's red wife But it's alright, God dug your dance And would have you young and in his harum
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Don Van Vliet
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The way I keep in touch with the world is very gingerly, because the world touches too hard.
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Don Van Vliet
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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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Don Van Vliet
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Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloating Full in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletons Various species grouped together according To their past beliefs The only way they ever all got together was Not in love but shameful grief
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Don Van Vliet
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But don’t worry, I am an irregular genius who is in the process of synchronizing her multiple minds in order to acquire the privilege to rise in the morning and say a great and coherent yes to life.
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (Call Me Zebra)
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Breathe deep Breathe high Breathe life Don’t breathe a lie
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Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)