Captain Beefheart Quotes

“If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.”
― Captain Beefheart

“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.”
― Lester Bangs

“I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.”
― Captain Beefheart

“I do like Captain Beefheart (Trout Mask Replica is a misunderstood masterpiece!) and I do have two kids but I’ve never written a prize winning novel called Oh, Bollocks!”
― Jon Edgell, Bust