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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

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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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'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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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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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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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.
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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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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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We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
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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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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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I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting to skip to their favorite song, or putting something else on, practically. That's why the zone out is a good thing.
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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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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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The earlier stuff is more like this is happening to me, but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, I've been down the road, we've been there and done that. That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.
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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 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 more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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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've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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