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Top 25 Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes (2025 Update)

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “Choose your mutations carefully.”

1. “Choose your mutations carefully.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.”

2. “I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “Rebellion is obsolete – change things from the inside working out.”

3. “Rebellion is obsolete – change things from the inside working out.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I’d tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn’t have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.”

6. “My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I’d tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn’t have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”

8. “I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “If you’re in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don’t like your music to begin with.”

12. “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

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.”

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

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “To me I think artists in general make a statement – and for the rest of their lives – every album, every book – are variations on a theme.”

15. “To me I think artists in general make a statement – and for the rest of their lives – every album, every book – are variations on a theme.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.”

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

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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?””

17. “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

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities.”

19. “I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “I’ve worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn’t really attach the word ‘artist’ to their name.”

20. “I’ve worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn’t really attach the word ‘artist’ to their name.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I’ve made, and sometimes they’re fantastical.”

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

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.”

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

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.”

26. “Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “I write all the time. I do artwork that’s part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.”

27. “I write all the time. I do artwork that’s part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.”

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh Quote: “If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it’s a good trade-off.”

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

— Mark Mothersbaugh

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