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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.
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
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Santa Monica
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Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.
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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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It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.
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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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The word down, is very musical. It just always comes.
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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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You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.
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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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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 don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.
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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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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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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 not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
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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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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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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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