Stephen Malkmus Quotes
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If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.
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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.
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I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.
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I'm not a go-to-the-gym type guy. I've tried before. And I'm not a jogger.
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That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.
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I don't even think my voice is really good.
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George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
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You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
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I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
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I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
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Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
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I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.
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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
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Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.
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If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.
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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.
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I'm not dying for things to say.
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Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.