Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.

Stephen Malkmus Pavement

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• I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Singing
  • Satisfaction
  • Don't Want

• I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Rich
  • Beloved
  • Don't Want

• I don't want to stop bringing out music.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Stop
  • Don't Want

• I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Reason
  • Stupid
  • Don't Want

• I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Don't Want
  • Go Back

• I don't want to let any of my family down.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • My Family
  • Don't Want

• I don't want to ever be a quote-unquote rock star. I want to just be me.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Rock Star
  • Quote
  • Don't Want

• I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • World
  • Don't Want
  • Blinders

• I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Together
  • Find
  • Don't Want

• I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

  

  George Michael
  • Age
  • Don't Want
  • Leather

• I don't want to be mean. I try not to be.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Mean
  • Don't Want

• I don't want to be the 'spice' added to a show. I'm not a condiment!

  

  Esai Morales
  • Don't Want
  • Spice
  • Condiments

• Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Force
  • Disagree
  • Don't Want

• When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Done
  • Create

• My acting range is incredibly limited and narrow, but I'm a good heavy. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. "Can you be a cop?" Sure. "Can you be a Marine?" Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Acting
  • Figures
  • Marine

• No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Rose
  • Thorn

• I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.

  

  James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
  • Peace
  • Emptiness

• They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

  

  Evan Wright
  • Kill
  • Japan
  • Pilots

• But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Trying

• The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. [...] An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. [...] But change is important.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Change
  • Secret
  • Music Business

• I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Don't Want