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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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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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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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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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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It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.
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I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me.
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Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
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The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
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One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.
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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.
