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I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.

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
Getting
Sometimes
Much
Chest
Plenty
Regret

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When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.
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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 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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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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I'm not dying for things to say.
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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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I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
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Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.
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I really do think everybody can sing.
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I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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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 did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.
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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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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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That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.
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I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting to skip to their favorite song, or putting something else on, practically. That's why the zone out is a good thing.
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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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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'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
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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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