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I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
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Santa Monica
California
Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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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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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The word down, is very musical. It just always comes.
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Like the song Stereo, to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.
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I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
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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 think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.
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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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Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
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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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But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.
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I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
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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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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 producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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I really do think everybody can sing.
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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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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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It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.
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