Quotes by Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh

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

Fascinated

Style

Surrealism

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.

Jobs

Mtv

Two

Choose your mutations carefully…

Mutation

I don’t cook – I can cook – but I’m not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can’t cook either. We would starve if it weren’t for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

Home

Meals

Technology

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

Appreciate

Art

Trying

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.

Children

School

Thinking

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.

People

Rocks

Stars

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.

Fighting

Ideas

Trying

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.

Diaries

Stories

Writing

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

Artist

Directors

Names

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Albums

Appreciate

Art

Artist

Attention

Behind The Scenes

Book

Cds

Children

Choices

Collaboration

Couple

Creating

Cutting

Destroying

Diaries

Directors

Done

Events

Fascinated

Father

Fighting

Fog

Friday

Games

Hollywood

Home

Ideas

Japan

Jobs

Kids

Legos

Like You

Littles

Meals

Messages

Monday

Moving

Mtv

Mutation

Names

Obsolete

Orchestra

People

Play

Rap

Rebellion

Records

Rocks

School

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Quotes by Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh

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

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.

Choose your mutations carefully…

I don’t cook – I can cook – but I’m not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can’t cook either. We would starve if it weren’t for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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