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I'm not dying for things to say.

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
Dying
Things

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We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
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Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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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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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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I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
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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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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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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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I really do think everybody can sing.
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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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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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Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.
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I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with any riffs that I really think are great. Then I can't do a riff album. I'm more of a song, melody person.
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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like rock lyrics.
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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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Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
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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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