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Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
The less you bet, the more you lose when you win.
Bob Nastanovich Pavement -
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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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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We Paverment were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
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I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.
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I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
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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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When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors Robby Krieger. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did this Nirvana song, very unrehearsed and not important, but then all the websites were like, "They covered Nirvana!" People like covers of famous people.
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Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
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I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
We're not conceding anything. In fact, I think the court of appeals would render in our favor.
Gary Young Pavement -
I like visual imagery in my head.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
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.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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Traditionally, when we lived here in Portland, we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different kinds of music. I don't listen to any of those Internet radio things. I have iTunes on my thing, but I've never bought a single thing on it. Except for "Call Me Maybe," for the kids or whatever. Carly Rae Jepsen.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
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.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
I'd like to see it happen for them; I just think its going to take a little while to get the clientele built up.
Gary Young Pavement -
Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement