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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
Good
Unique
Sound
Voice
Important
Really

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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.
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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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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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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.
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I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
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What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, Wow, what's this all about? You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?
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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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I really do think everybody can sing.
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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've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
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I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.
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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.
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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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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.
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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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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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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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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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