Mark Mothersbaugh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Father #Book #Kids
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Moving #Messages #Hollywood
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Teacher #Art #Thinking
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Thinking #Tape #Attention
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Fighting #Ideas #Trying
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Stars #Rocks #People
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Book #Thinking #Artist
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Style #Surrealism
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Home #Technology #Meals
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Writing #Fog #Orchestra
I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, thereâ€™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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Children #School #Thinking
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Writing #Stories #Events
Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Work Out #Rebellion #Obsolete
Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Behind The Scenes #Directors #Collaboration
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.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Writing #Stories #Diaries
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Artist #Names #Directors
I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.
-- Mark Mothersbaugh

#Art #Appreciate #Trying

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