Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Allen Mothersbaughis an American singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, author, and visual artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth18 May 1950
CityAkron, OH
CountryUnited States of America
dollar liked million others projects simply turned
We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.
personally
Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
dear earliest heart influences island lost original souls unnatural
Mutants have always been dear to the heart of Devo. One of our earliest influences was the original Island of Lost Souls , ... The whole thing was frightening and unnatural and disturbing.
years games creating
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.
mutation
Choose your mutations carefully.
father book kids
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.
song mtv band
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.
moving messages hollywood
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.
teacher art thinking
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.
fighting ideas trying
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.
writing fog orchestra
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.
friday monday couple
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.
writing stories events
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
work-out rebellion obsolete
Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.