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?

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Forget

• No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Remember
  • Never
  • Forget

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Think
  • Voice
  • Plant

• When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Women
  • You
  • Forget

• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • People
  • Today
  • Forget

• When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Moral
  • Forget
  • Consequences

• I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Words
  • Me
  • Voice

• I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Forget
  • Memory
  • Never Forget

• 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.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • World
  • Music
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Doubt
  • Story
  • Process

• When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Why
  • Kind
  • Forget

• Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Simple
  • Forget
  • Marketing

• I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Together
  • Fun

• I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Degree

• '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.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Children
  • History
  • Movie

• Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Power
  • Song

• I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Story
  • Voice
  • Toy

• But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Trying
  • She

• I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.

  

  Irene Cara Escalera
  • Voice
  • Sing
  • Sincerity

• I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Voice
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