Stephen Malkmus Quotes
I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
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Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker...
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A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.
