Mark E. Smith Quotes
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I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's why music is in the sorry state that it is. Any idiot, actors mainly, can go in there, sing a chord, bang on a machine... I'm not objecting to that but when people get at me for trying to say something in a rock 'n' roll mode it's as if I'm the freak.
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The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
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The gigs I enjoy are the ones where I'm so angry and paranoid, and I hate the audience so much, that I put everything into it to feed off the aggressive side of it. I don't actually hate the fans but when I'm feeling angry, pissed off, and full of hate, it's a good gig for me.
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My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
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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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Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
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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 like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
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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 cunts 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.
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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 do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
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I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.
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I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
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I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
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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.
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Fear is something I try not to absorb.
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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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If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
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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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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.
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Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.
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