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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.
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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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I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
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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.
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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 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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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.
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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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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 think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.
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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
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.
Stephen Malkmus
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'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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