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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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Mathematics, James, Lower, Brown

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

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Kind, Vicious, Too, Schizophrenic

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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Big, Guy, Jerk, Johnny

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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Myself, Needed, Given, Purge

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

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Some, Been, Very, Churches

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.

- Captain Beefheart

Play, I Think, Rather, Engine

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

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I Am, Intelligence, See, Dolphin

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

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Sound, Always, Very, Wind

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

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Car, Living, Living Thing, Inadvertently

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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Night, Tan, Like, Indoors

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

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Like, About, Gonna, None

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

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Audience, Right, Stage, Lift

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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Think, I Think, Which, Frightening

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

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Animals, Other, Than, Neighbours

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

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Never, Everybody, Else, Everybody Else

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

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School, Fish, Want, Jump

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

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Some, Screwed, Almost, Toilet

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

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Like, Could, Anybody, Anybody Else

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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Done, Dangerous, Then, Animal

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

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Cabin, Log, Had, Mobile

We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

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See, Able, Anyone, Colored

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

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Tell, How, Should, Human

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

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Eye, Animals, See, Moon

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

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Guilt, Product, Most, Rock

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

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Think, Made, I Think, Artists

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