Mark E. Smith famous quotes

04-14-2025

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Play #Tunes
Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
-- Mark E. Smith

#Blue #Cheesy #Amphetamines
When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Vision
My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Memories #Muffins #Mules
I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Brother #Helping #Younger Sister
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Book #Strange #Sometimes
I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
-- Mark E. Smith

#People
I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Writing #Thinking #Want
I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Sleep #Outsiders #Over It
Fear is something I try not to absorb.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Trying
Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Glasses #Rose #Dislike
The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Thinking #Sticks #Musician
The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Difficult
We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them ***** up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Son #Numbers #Bottles
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Fall #Ideas #Listening
A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...
-- Mark E. Smith

#Smart #Musician #Deals
I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Psychics #Way #Used
When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.
-- Mark E. Smith

#Wall #School #Leaving

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