Don Van Vliet

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There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: People
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Be kind, man - don't be mankind.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Men
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It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Bullshit
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The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Inspirational
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A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Rabbits
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Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Art
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I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Giving
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I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Thinking
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I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Marine
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If you got ears, you gotta listen.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Ears
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It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Thinking
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Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Fall
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I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Stupid
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Earth ... God's golf ball.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Golf
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If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: School
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The earth is Godʹs golf ball.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: Golf
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I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.
- Don Van Vliet
Collection: People