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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

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
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College

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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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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 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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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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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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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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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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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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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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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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What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, Wow, what's this all about? You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.
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I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with any riffs that I really think are great. Then I can't do a riff album. I'm more of a song, melody person.
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