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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.
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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More quotes by Stephen Malkmus
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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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 still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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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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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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I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
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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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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 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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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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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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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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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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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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I'm not dying for things to say.
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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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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
Stephen Malkmus
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 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'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
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