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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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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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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 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 think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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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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We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
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There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.
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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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I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
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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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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
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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 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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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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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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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 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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