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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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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
Shine
Shining
Seen
Heard
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Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.
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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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Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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Like the song Stereo, to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.
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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 really do think everybody can sing.
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George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
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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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I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
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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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I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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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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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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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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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.
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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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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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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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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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