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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, You're a dad, and how's fatherhood? If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.
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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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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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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.
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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If I'm dismissive of what we do sometimes, a little bit, she's like, I was a fan, you changed my life, or whatever. That's what she says.
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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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Like the song Stereo, to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.
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I really do think everybody can sing.
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I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
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I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.
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It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.
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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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