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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?
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
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Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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 not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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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 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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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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My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.
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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 really do think everybody can sing.
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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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Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.
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I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with any riffs that I really think are great. Then I can't do a riff album. I'm more of a song, melody person.
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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 didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
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So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like rock lyrics.
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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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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 would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.
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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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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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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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