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.
It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it. - Mark Mothersbaugh
It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.
- Mark Mothersbaugh
If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with. - Mark Mothersbaugh
If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.
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… - 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…
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 st… - Mark Mothersbaugh
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 st…
Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out. - Mark Mothersbaugh
Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.
When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That… - Mark Mothersbaugh
When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That…
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 … - Mark Mothersbaugh
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 …
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism. - Mark Mothersbaugh
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
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 lik… - Mark Mothersbaugh
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 lik…
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