Prince's manager once told me that I was the only person other than Prince who can recruit from the streets. Which was very flattering. Mark E. Smith More Quotes by Mark E. Smith More Quotes From Mark E. Smith If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly. Mark E. Smith tunes ifs play 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. Mark E. Smith groups numbers son Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this? Mark E. Smith amphetamines cheesy blue 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. Mark E. Smith enjoy hate feelings 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. Mark E. Smith sorry writing boys 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. Mark E. Smith musician sticks thinking I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it. Mark E. Smith psychics used way 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. Mark E. Smith drunk people thinking 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 wall leaving school I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it. Mark E. Smith outsiders sleep feels When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory. Mark E. Smith vision I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing. Mark E. Smith security-guards writing thinking Fear is something I try not to absorb. Mark E. Smith trying Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses. Mark E. Smith dislike glasses rose 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. Smith listening ideas fall My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three. Mark E. Smith muffins three memories A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me. Mark E. Smith deals smart musician I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange. Mark E. Smith strange sometimes book The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult. Mark E. Smith difficult i-can 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. Mark E. Smith younger-sister brother helping
