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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.

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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Many
Made
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Coming
Head
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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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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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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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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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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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I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
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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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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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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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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'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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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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