Stephen Malkmus Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
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If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way.
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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
