Stephen Malkmus Quotes
If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.
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I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
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I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.
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Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
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My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
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I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.
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'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
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Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
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I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'
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My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.
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Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.
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If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.
