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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We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
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We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
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I know I'm not the consummate Bollywood heroine. But I'm working hard on it.
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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
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As I write, I try to be the character.
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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.
