Latest Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes from Interviews

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• When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?"

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Song, Writing, Kids

  Source: collider.com

• What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to achieve and what you're attempting to support, it's not uncommon to think of your music and to think of the way your orchestra plays for something like Jack and Daxter where you start with- you know because it has to change tempo and intensity as the action gets more intense.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: collider.com

• Will Arnett and I were never in the same room, but once I saw early animation we started writing music for that and then he just kind of did his little rap over top, some of it was free form and some of it I made up, we all just kind of contributed to it.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Rap, Writing, Littles

  Source: collider.com

• TV series, there's a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they're on such a crazy schedule that you get another episode on a Monday, you have to have it done by Friday and it becomes very solitary work usually, TV shows.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Friday, Monday, Couple

  Source: collider.com

• This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Directors, Done, Legos

  Source: collider.com

• Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Couple, Cutting, Two

  Source: collider.com

• With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Song, Mtv, Albums

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

• With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Japan, Cds, Two

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 2005.

• Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Taken, Artist, Technology

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

• 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.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Jobs, Mtv, Two

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

• 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

  Writing, People, Way

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

• 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's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Kids, Choices, Albums

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

• 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

  Stars, Rocks, Like You

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

• If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Records, Destroying, Trade

  Source: www.believermag.com