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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.
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
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Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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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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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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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I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.
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What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.
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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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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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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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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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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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But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.
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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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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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I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
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That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.
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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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I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
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I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
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