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'.
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Kleenex would have made a mint today.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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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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I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
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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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The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
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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.
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
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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.
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I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
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We were feeling desperate, We started writing songs; Question Mark would record everything we practiced. I came up with some chords, and Question Mark started singing Too Many Teardrops.
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A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done—trying to even the scales before they cross the river.
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When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
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Because I don’t want to be wearing my scrotum as a necklace.
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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.
