A biography for Captain Beefhearthasn’t been written yet.
“I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.”
“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.”
“I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.”
“I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.”
“I'm interested in playing, not working.”
“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.”
“Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.”
“I don't do lullabyes.”
“The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.”
“I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.”
“I don't know anything about music.”
“We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.”