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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.
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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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 sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.
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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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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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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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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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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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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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I really do think everybody can sing.
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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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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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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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There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.
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Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
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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 never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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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'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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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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