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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
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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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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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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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've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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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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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.
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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'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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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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