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

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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
Word
Comes
Always
Musical

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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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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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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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But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.
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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.
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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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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'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 know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.
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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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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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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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