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It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.
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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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.
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I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
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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've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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The word down, is very musical. It just always comes.
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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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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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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 thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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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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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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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've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
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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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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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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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I'm not dying for things to say.
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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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It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, You're a dad, and how's fatherhood? If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.
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If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.
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