Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes

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• We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Years, Games, Creating

  "Devo guitarist Bob Casale dead of heart failure at age 61". www.foxnews.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Choose your mutations carefully...

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Mutation

  "Mutate, don't stagnate: Mark Mothersbaugh in conversation". Interview with Shelley Salant, www.metrotimes.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Work Out, Rebellion, Obsolete

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

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  Stars, Rocks, Like You

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

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• With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Song, Mtv, Albums

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

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• My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

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  Teacher, Art, Thinking

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• I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

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  Stars, Rocks, People

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• When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.

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  Kids, Choices, Albums

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

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• It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

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  Writing, People, Way

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

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• My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.

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  Thinking, Tape, Attention

  "SXSW ’12: Mark Mothersbaugh Confirms He’s Scoring ‘Lego,’ Talks Working On Wes Anderson’s ‘Bottle Rocket’ & More" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

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  Book, Artist, Thinking

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• Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be the second or third album where you'd make the statement you'd been trying to make all along.

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  Jobs, Mtv, Two

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

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• As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

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  Style, Surrealism, Fascinated

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• I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

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  Artist, Names, Directors

  "SXSW ’12: Mark Mothersbaugh Confirms He’s Scoring ‘Lego,’ Talks Working On Wes Anderson’s ‘Bottle Rocket’ & More" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Directors, Collaboration, Behind The Scenes

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• With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.

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  Japan, Cds, Two

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 2005.

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• The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

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  Writing, Events, Stories

  "Mark Mothersbaugh Revisits His Literary Roots". Interview with Danielle Wiener-Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

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  Art, Appreciate, Trying

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• I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

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  Writing, Diaries, Stories

  "Mark Mothersbaugh Revisits His Literary Roots". Interview with Danielle Wiener-Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Records, Destroying, Trade

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

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  Father, Book, Kids

  "Mark Mothersbaugh Revisits His Literary Roots" by Danielle Wiener-Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 05, 2012.

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• To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

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  Moving, Messages, Hollywood

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• I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities.

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  Children, School, Thinking

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• I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

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  Fighting, Ideas, Trying

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• Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

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  Writing, Fog, Orchestra

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