Mark Oliver Everett Quotes

• Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Falling In Love, People, World

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• Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Beauty, Beautiful, Moving

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• I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Trust, Drinking, People

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• If you're scared of dying you better not be scared to live.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Dying, Scared, Ifs

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• I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Humble, Son, Mechanic

  "Lives less ordinary" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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• Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Kids, Matter, Born

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• For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get to where you want to get to. I think a lot of bands make the same record over and over again because they're married to the same three or four people. At some point they've done all they can do with their own imaginations.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Eels: He’s Electric". Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2009.

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• I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Gas Stations, Back To Work, Very Romantic

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• Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Hurt, Three, Pressure

  "Eels: He’s Electric". Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2009.

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