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I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.

Stephen Malkmus

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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
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Santa Monica
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Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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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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I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
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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 never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
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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 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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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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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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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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The word down, is very musical. It just always comes.
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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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