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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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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.
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Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
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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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I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
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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 like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
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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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If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
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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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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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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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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 didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
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I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.
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Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.
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I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.
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Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.
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