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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.
Stephen Malkmus
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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
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Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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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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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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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'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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The word down, is very musical. It just always comes.
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I really do think everybody can sing.
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It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.
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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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The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
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