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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.
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
Guitarist
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Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
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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 things to say.
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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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