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Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (/ˈmʌðərzbɔː/; born May 18, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, author and visual artist.

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If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

Become, Like You, Music, Rocks, Star, Stars

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

Fog, Orchestra, Right, Score, Writing

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?"

Couple, Cutting, Like, Two, Wow

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

Change, Obsolete, Rebellion, Things, Work Out

We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.

Creating, Friend, Games, Sound, Varied, Years

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.

Album, Albums, Choices, Classify, Kid, Kids

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.

Actually, Directors, Done, Fourth, Lego, Legos

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.

Couple, Friday, Monday, Shows, Work

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

Artist, Taken, Technology, Tough

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.

Album, Copies, Jobs, Mtv, Two

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.

Arnett, Early, Littles, Music, Rap, Writing

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables. ' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

Book, Father, Kids, Liked, Read, Short

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

Appreciate, Art, Film, Inject, Mainstream, Trying

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Art, Education, Teacher, Thinking, Work

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

Destroying, Good, Record, Records, Trade

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

Hollywood, Kill, Message, Messages, Moving, Scores

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

Events, Fantastical, Stories, Write, Writing

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

Fascinated, Style, Surrealism

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

Asked, Home, Meals, Microwave, Technology

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Artist, Directors, Names, Word

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