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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.

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Mark Mothersbaugh
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 18
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
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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.
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Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.
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If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.
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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.
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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?
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Choose your mutations carefully...
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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.
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