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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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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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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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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.
Stephen Malkmus
A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
Stephen Malkmus
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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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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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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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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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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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 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'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
Stephen Malkmus
We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
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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.
Stephen Malkmus
I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
Stephen Malkmus
I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
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