Stephen Malkmus Quotes

Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it. I mean, there's a combination of, like you're saying, that kind of lyrics about commitment or vaguely relationship lyrics mixed with jokey 90s Beck-style non-sequiturs and stuff.

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• There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Parents

• Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Process

• When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Difficult

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Song
  • Journey
  • End

• When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

  

  Flula Borg
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Song
  • Know
  • Famous

• For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Song
  • Perfect
  • Mountain

• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• 'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Song
  • Always
  • Screw

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Expectation

• I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Music
  • Know
  • Relationship

• The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Relationship
  • Unknown

• Everyone wants a love song you can dance to.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Song
  • Dance

• I'm not arguing, incidentally, for a confusion of art and architecture, a fashion now, but for a coherent relationship. Therefore, within the capacity of one person or of a small group, the relationship of all visible things should be considered.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Art
  • Small
  • Relationship

• Based on the lyrics I think it's not as highbrow academic.

  

  Dennis Lyxzén AC4
  • Lyrics
  • Based
  • Highbrow

• I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Song

• Let us think only of the good days that are to come.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good

• Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it. I mean, there's a combination of, like you're saying, that kind of lyrics about commitment or vaguely relationship lyrics mixed with jokey 90s Beck-style non-sequiturs and stuff.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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  • Relationship
  • Lyrics