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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

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
Everyone
Two
Everything
Every
Sensible
Years
Forty
Dying
Minutes
Hear

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