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Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.
— Stephen Malkmus
I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
— Stephen Malkmus
I don't even think my voice is really good.
— Stephen Malkmus
When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
— Stephen Malkmus
Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
— Stephen Malkmus
The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
— Stephen Malkmus
I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
— Stephen Malkmus
I like visual imagery in my head.
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There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.
— Stephen Malkmus
I'm not dying for things to say.
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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."
— Stephen Malkmus
I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.
— Stephen Malkmus
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
— Stephen Malkmus
If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.
— Stephen Malkmus
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.
— Stephen Malkmus
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
— Stephen Malkmus
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We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
— Stephen Malkmus
Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
— Stephen Malkmus
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.
— Stephen Malkmus
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
— Stephen Malkmus
There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.
— Stephen Malkmus
I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
— Stephen Malkmus
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
— Stephen Malkmus
Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.
— Stephen Malkmus
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.
— Stephen Malkmus
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
— Stephen Malkmus
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.
— Stephen Malkmus
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.
— Stephen Malkmus
There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
— Stephen Malkmus
I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
— Stephen Malkmus
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
— Stephen Malkmus
Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
— Stephen Malkmus
If you have no shame, and it's your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?
— Stephen Malkmus
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.
— Stephen Malkmus
Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
— Stephen Malkmus
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
— Stephen Malkmus
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Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
— Stephen Malkmus
Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
— Stephen Malkmus
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
— Stephen Malkmus
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.
— Stephen Malkmus
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 really do think everybody can sing.
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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.
— Stephen Malkmus
I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
— Stephen Malkmus
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I still hate [the Eagles] ... . There's levels of evil in it to me.
— Stephen Malkmus
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
— Stephen Malkmus
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.
— Stephen Malkmus
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
— Stephen Malkmus
We always did our own mixing.
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