Mark E. Smith Quotes

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• A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...
• If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
• 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…
• 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…
• The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
• 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…
• Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.
• Fear is something I try not to absorb.
• I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
• I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
• I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
• I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
• 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.
• My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
• When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
• 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…
• Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
• I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

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