Stephen Malkmus Quotes
The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, "I've been down the road, we've been there and done that." That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
E. F. Schumacher
People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
Ed Koch
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
Otto Penzler
People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
Magnus Carlsen
When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
Pamela Nicholson
With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
Taraji P. Henson
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Oscar Wilde
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
Robert Frost
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
Seneca the Younger
A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.
Bill Orcutt
The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, "I've been down the road, we've been there and done that." That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
