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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.
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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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 really do think everybody can sing.
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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 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 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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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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Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.
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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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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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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 think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
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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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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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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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