I'm not a human being. I'm a mammal. I don't know what a human being is. I don't even know what a man is. I'm just a mammal, and I'm here to do a job.
— Captain Beefheart Contemporary

Avant-garde musician

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Interview with NME

Date / Period

1978

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Controversial

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