Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vlietwas an American singer, songwriter, musician and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called the Magic Band, with whom he recorded 13 studio albums. Noted for his powerful singing voice and his wide vocal range, Van Vliet also played the harmonica, saxophone, and numerous other wind instruments. His music integrated blues, rock, psychedelia, and jazz with contemporary experimental composition and the avant-garde; many of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth15 January 1941
CityGlendale, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.
I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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.
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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.
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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.