Stephen Malkmus Quotes - Page 5

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• It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.

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  Song, Moving, Thinking

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• I like visual imagery in my head.

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  Imagery, Visuals, Visual Imagery

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• If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

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  Paradigm, Paradigm Shift, Ifs

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• Things tends to often [consolidate] like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three.

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  People, Three, Matter

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• I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.

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  Song, Heart, People

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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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  Song, Thinking, Different

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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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  Fun, Kids, Thinking

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• I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

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  Doors, Band

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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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  Careers, Wife, Intellectual

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• 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.

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  Flames, Long, Personality

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• Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.

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  Fun, People, Dumb

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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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  Art, Honestly, Knows

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• When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

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  Mean, Reality, Band

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• Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

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  Engineers, Studios

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• I'm not dying for things to say.

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  Dying

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