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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

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
Thought
Band
Doors
Greatest

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I'm not dying for things to say.
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The word down, is very musical. It just always comes.
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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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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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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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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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We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
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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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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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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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The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
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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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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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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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