Stephen Malkmus Quotes
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.
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Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
