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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
Everything
Every
Sensible
Years
Forty
Dying
Minutes
Hear
Everyone
Two

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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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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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I'm not dying for things to say.
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I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting to skip to their favorite song, or putting something else on, practically. That's why the zone out is a good thing.
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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.
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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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My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If I'm dismissive of what we do sometimes, a little bit, she's like, I was a fan, you changed my life, or whatever. That's what she says.
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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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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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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 more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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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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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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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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The word down, is very musical. It just always comes.
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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'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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