Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with any riffs that I really think are great. Then I can't do a riff album. I'm more of a song, melody person.

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• 'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Free
  • Thought
  • Slaves

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Thinking
  • Confused
  • Fan

• Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Growing
  • Without
  • Romance

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Drinking

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Up
  • Done
  • Couple

• When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Disease

• Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Time
  • May
  • Feeling

• My paintings are always images of my whole psychic makeup. You cannot deny yourself. You ask, am I painting myself? I'd been a swindler if I did otherwise. I'd be denying my existence as an artist. I've been also asked, what do you want to convey? And I say, nothing but my own nature.. .I am nothing but an optimist.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Makeup

• The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • People
  • Men
  • Power

• A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life

• If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Children

• I just don’t quite understand it the press, really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste... The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Animal

• The most prevalent critique of modern communications is that we are “always connected.” But the problem isn’t that we’re always connected; we’re not. The problem is that we’re always buffered. The difference is enormous.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Problem
  • Communications
  • Critique

• Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.

  

  Jamie Parker

• I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Home

• Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Goal

• I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with any riffs that I really think are great. Then I can't do a riff album. I'm more of a song, melody person.

  

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