Stephen Malkmus Quotes

So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

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• When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

  

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• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

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• I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

  

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• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

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• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  

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• Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

  

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• Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.

  

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• You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

  

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• I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.

  

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• I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.

  

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• I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

  

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• For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.

  

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• If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

  

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• The khaleesi seems the most fair.

  

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• I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

  

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• We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.

  

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  • Great
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  • Small

• Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

  

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• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  

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• The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Life
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• If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • English
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• So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Mirror
  • Lyrics
  • Dangerous