Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.

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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'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Taken
  • Head
  • Direction

• You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • You
  • Made
  • Materials

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Criticism
  • Made
  • Prejudice

• Kleenex would have made a mint today.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Today
  • Made
  • Mint

• I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Music
  • Think
  • Made

• In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Should
  • Made
  • News

• 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.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Me
  • Idea

• I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Head

• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Stories
  • Songs

• In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Country
  • Head
  • Whole

• I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Film
  • Made
  • Because

• I'm a lover of songs.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Songs
  • Lover

• 'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movies
  • Made
  • Ever

• Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Many

• My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love.

  

  Brenda Russell
  • People
  • God
  • Inspiration

• I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Style

• In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

  

  Adele
  • Songs
  • Direct
  • Interviews

• I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Heaven
  • Needed
  • Trip

• But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Kind
  • Spirit
  • Kindness

• Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.

  

  Wladimir Klitschko
  • Politics
  • Rules
  • Boxing

• I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.

  

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