Stephen Malkmus Quotes
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Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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We Paverment were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
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There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.
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I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
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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.
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I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.
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Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
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I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
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You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.
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Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.
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The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
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I still hate the Eagles…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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Things tends to often consolidate like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three.
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We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.
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The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
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My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.
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When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.
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Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
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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."
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We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.