Mark E. Smith Quotes & Sayings

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you. — Mark E. Smith

I used to believe everything I read, but now I'm steppin' out. — Mark E. Smith

When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory. — Mark E. Smith

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. — Mark E. Smith

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this? — Mark E. Smith

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

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it. — Mark E. Smith

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

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more. — Mark E. Smith

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange. — Mark E. Smith

Fear is something I try not to absorb. — Mark E. Smith

The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp — Mark E. Smith

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

If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall. — Mark E. Smith

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly. — Mark E. Smith

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

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult. — Mark E. Smith

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. — Mark E. Smith

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. — Mark E. Smith

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses. — Mark E. Smith

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three. — Mark E. Smith

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing. — Mark E. Smith

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. — Mark E. Smith

They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die. — Mark E. Smith

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. — Mark E. Smith

There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw you. They had a point. There's a lot to learn from that generation
the stoic approach. I think it's disgusting how they've been forgotten about in this way. It's the American hippies' fault, they saw an in there, a way of making money out of bad moods. That's all it is most of the time. You can't expect to feel cock-a-hoop every minute of every day. My mam and dad's generation understood this. They were just thankful the bombs had stopped threatening their lives. They just wanted to get on with living. — Mark E. Smith

I drank a jar of coffee
And I took some of these — Mark E. Smith

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it. — Mark E. Smith

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