Captain Beefheart

"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"

"That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!"

"Pena Her little head clinking Like a barrel of red velvet balls Full past noise Treats filled her eyes Turning them yellow like enamel coated tacks Soft like butter hard not to pour"

"You look dandy in the sky but you don’t scare me Cause I got you here in my eye In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues"

"I've written every drum bit I ever done, every note. I played the drums. I played the guitar. I played the piano. I wanted it exactly the way I wanted. Exactly. Any composer I would think would want it that way, and I don't deviate at all. Don't you think that somebody like Stravinsky, for instance, don't you think that it would have annoyed him if someone bent a note the wrong way?"

"[Beefheart] used to say, "You think you got a hard job, man? I gotta sing to that shit!""