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