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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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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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We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
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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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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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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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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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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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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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I really do think everybody can sing.
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It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, You're a dad, and how's fatherhood? If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.
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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 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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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 thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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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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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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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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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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Things tends to often [consolidate] like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three.
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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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