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The word down, is very musical. It just always comes.

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
Musical
Word
Comes
Always

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What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.
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Things tends to often [consolidate] like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three.
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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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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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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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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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I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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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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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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