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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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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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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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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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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I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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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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When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.
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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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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.
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I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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A calm mind is not disturbed by waves of thoughts. Calm the winds of your thoughts and there will be no waves in the ocean of your mind.
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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.
