Stephen Malkmus Quotes
In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing this. Maybe the Pixies were, a little bit. Their lyrics were also disjointed, more psychosexual or something. That's part of youth, too, maybe, that you just feel like you're doing something different.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.
-
I feel very, very blessed.
-
It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
-
I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
-
I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
-
I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
-
I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
-
I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
-
People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
-
I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.
-
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
-
I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
-
Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
-
What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
-
I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
-
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
-
The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.
-
Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
-
Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.
-
The world is a strange and wonderful place.
-
I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.
-
I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying.
-
I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
-
In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing this. Maybe the Pixies were, a little bit. Their lyrics were also disjointed, more psychosexual or something. That's part of youth, too, maybe, that you just feel like you're doing something different.
