Stephen Malkmus Quotes

What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.

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• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Important
  • Think
  • Relation

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.

  

  Valerie June
  • Records
  • Loner
  • Relaxing

• 'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Records
  • Street

• Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

  

  Karen O
  • Difficult
  • Records
  • Really

• The reason I sell 6 million records, the reason I could go to jail and come out without a scratch, the reason I can walk around, the reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly in to my face and find my soul, it's there, it's not sold, i didn't sell it, it's still within me, I still feel it, my heart is still connected to my body.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Look

• To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Opinion
  • Songs
  • Records

• I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Art
  • Business
  • Acting

• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Firsts
  • Records

• Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • Real
  • Book
  • Food

• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • Music
  • Spiritual
  • Consciousness

• I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Done
  • Feels
  • Made

• I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Learning

• I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Records
  • Sales
  • Saws

• Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Good
  • Records
  • Tastes

• I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.

  

  George Benson
  • Up
  • World
  • Eyes

• My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Records

• Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Music
  • Comedy

• There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Truths
  • Sincere
  • Friendless

• Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Judge
  • Films
  • Ambitions

• Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • People
  • Movement
  • Reform

• What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Records
  • Relation
  • Dynamics