Top 27 Mark E. Smith Quotes
#1. I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.
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#2. I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
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#3. The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp
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#4. They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die.
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#6. 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.
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#7. My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
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#8. If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
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#9. I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
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#10. I used to believe everything I read, but now I'm steppin' out.
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#11. He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.
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#12. I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
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#13. When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
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#14. If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
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#15. 'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.
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#16. I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.
Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.
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#17. Nuking Russia might not be a bad idea as far as the bleedin' world is concerned. They've plunged a lot of people into miserable lives. You've only got to be in East Germany to see it. It's a horrible way to live. It's like Doncaster.
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#18. I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
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#19. 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.
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#20. I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
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#21. 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.
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#22. The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
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#23. Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.
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#24. Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
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#25. I drank a jar of coffee
And I took some of these
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#26. Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.
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#27. 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.
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