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 would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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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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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
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I'd be dong something creative - something I could express my personality through. I enjoyed working as a gardener before music consumed more of my time. I would probably be still working as a gardener, perhaps, and I wouldn't mind doing odd jobs on the side that were creative, but I'm not sure what they'd be.
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I mean, the way I'm talking, it sounds like I'm - you know, I'm about to go out and sign up for the nearest seminary, and you'll never see or hear from me again. But it's a hard thing to talk about really 'cause I'm not at all sure myself about it. But I've got a very, very simple sort of outlook to it. Yeah, that's all I can say, really.
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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.
