Don Van Vliet Quotes

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt. - Don Van Vliet

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

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

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

I'm interested in playing, not working. - Don Van Vliet

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school. - Don Van Vliet

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

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. - Don Van Vliet

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

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

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