Stephen Malkmus Quotes
We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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My music is a luxury.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
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While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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I mean, I could tell that I really had... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed through with it and really used that gift and nurtured it, honed it, made it sharp and tried to use it as a tool now to make music and to make a living for my family.
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The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.
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Cooking is exactly like making music.
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If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
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I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
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A lot of times when I'm at home kickin' it, I don't even listen to hip hop. I listen to all types of music.
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I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.
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My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.
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We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.
