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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

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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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Scenarios
Describing
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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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What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.
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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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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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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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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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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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The word down, is very musical. It just always comes.
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I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
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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'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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I'm not dying for things to say.
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I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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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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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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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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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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Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
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