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Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
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Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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.
Stephen Malkmus
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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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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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.
Stephen Malkmus
I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
Stephen Malkmus
I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
Stephen Malkmus
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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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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It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.
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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.
Stephen Malkmus
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
Stephen Malkmus
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.
Stephen Malkmus
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
Stephen Malkmus
Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.
Stephen Malkmus
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
Stephen Malkmus
I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
Stephen Malkmus
I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
Stephen Malkmus
I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
Stephen Malkmus
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.
Stephen Malkmus
Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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