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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.
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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More quotes by Stephen Malkmus
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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When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.
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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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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'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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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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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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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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I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
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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 never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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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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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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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.
Stephen Malkmus
Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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The earlier stuff is more like this is happening to me, but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, I've been down the road, we've been there and done that. That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.
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I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
Stephen Malkmus
I really do think everybody can sing.
Stephen Malkmus
