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    A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.

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    An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

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    Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

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    Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

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    Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

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    Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

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    But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

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    Earth ... God's golf ball.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

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    I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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    I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.

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    I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

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    I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

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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.

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    I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

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    I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

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    It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

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

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    I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

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    That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

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    The earth is Godʹs golf ball.

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    The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

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    There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

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    The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.

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    When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

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    With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

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    You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

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    Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloating Full in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletons Various species grouped together according To their past beliefs The only way they ever all got together was Not in love but shameful grief

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    Well, the way you'd been, old lady I could see the fear in your windows Under your furry crawling brow A silver bow rings up in inches You were afraid you'd be the devil's red wife But it's alright, God dug your dance And would have you young and in his harum