Mark E. Smith quotes
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“If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.”
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“Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?”
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“When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.”
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“My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.”
-- Mark E. SmithSource : "This much I know". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.
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“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.”
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“I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.”
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“I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.”
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“I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.”
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“I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.”
-- Mark E. SmithSource : "This much I know". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.
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“Fear is something I try not to absorb.”
-- Mark E. SmithSource : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.
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“Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.”
-- Mark E. SmithSource : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.
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“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.”
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“The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.”
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“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. SmithSource : "The Fall's Mark E. Smith Attacks Mumford & Sons" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 20, 2010.
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“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. SmithSource : "20 Years On: Revisiting Pavement's Slanted And Enchanted" by Jim Keoghan, thequietus.com. April 27, 2012.
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“A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...”
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“I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.”
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“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
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