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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.

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
People
Shitty
Dumb
Fun
Body
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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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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'm not dying for things to say.
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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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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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I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
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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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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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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 like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
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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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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 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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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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The earlier stuff is more like this is happening to me, but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, I've been down the road, we've been there and done that. That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.
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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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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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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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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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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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