Mark Linkous famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.
-- Mark Linkous

#Song #Writing #Simple
I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling.
-- Mark Linkous

#Thinking #Feelings #Trying
I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.
-- Mark Linkous

#Kings #People #Want
I hate the sound of my own voice. It's just up there, sort of naked and exposed. Live is hard, because on my records, I play almost everything on a lot of stuff. In a live situation, I can't control everything. I use two different microphones. One is just clean, traditional sound, and the other one is basically a cheap cassette-recorder microphone that goes through a distortion box to emulate my voice on the record. That helps some.
-- Mark Linkous

#Hate #Different #Helping
Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation
-- Mark Linkous

#Artist #Our Generation #Generations
I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.
-- Mark Linkous

#Sound #Playing Music #Want
When people want me to sign records they usually always have Vivadixie[submarinetransmissions], and I think that's a lot of people's favorite record. And that was sort of when I was just learning what I was doing.
-- Mark Linkous

#Thinking #People #Records
A lot of that I base on, "Is it still going to sound interesting and fresh to me in five years, am I going to be embarrassed by this in five years?" It's easier for me to do stark, moody, pretty stuff, and I have all this pop stuff inside me, but it's a lot more dangerous, and pop is just apt to sound contrived and sort of pedestrian if you're not careful.
-- Mark Linkous

#Interesting #Dangerous #Embarrassed
A lot of the stuff I listen to is glitchy electronic stuff and stuff with beats.
-- Mark Linkous

#Stuff #Beats
It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.
-- Mark Linkous

#Song #Writing #Forever

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