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Mark Mothersbaugh

"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."

Source : "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.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#Thinking Quotes #Tape Quotes #Attention Quotes

“There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you canâ€™t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.”
“Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and I don't think God really would be all that interested. I'm sure when Bach wrote for the greater glory of God, he really didn't think that God was going to sit down at breakfast and listen to his cantatas. I think he meant for higher purposes than earning a living.”
“Who wants to wake up in the morning and have to remember that they've got to face Adrien Broner?”
“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside
“I exercise at the gym with a trainer. I feel it's very healthy, very important - important for everybody. I feel it's good for you. It makes you feel better. It loosens you up a little bit.”
“You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.”
“Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
“There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.”

"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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