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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.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Nice, Self, Effort

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Past, People, Dynamics

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Mean, Voice, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  People, Goal, Bed

  Interview with Matthew Derby, www.believermag.com. October 2003.

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• I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Musician, Records

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.

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  Nice, Leather Pants, Would Be

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.

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  Writing, Trying, Kind

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• 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

  Taken, Champion, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really do think everybody can sing.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking

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• I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

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  Singing, Singers, Decided

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• You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Listening, World, Matter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Hate, Eagles, Evil

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• The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

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  Song, Different, Caves

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• I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

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  Thinking, Views, Media

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• There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

  Stephen Malkmus

  People, Musician, Like You

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Moving, Describing, Scenarios

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• There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

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  Sound, Albums, Should

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• Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Radio, Yeah

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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.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Fun, People, Dumb

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Singers, Reeds

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• 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

  Song, Ideas, Vision

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• I don't even think my voice is really good.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Voice

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• What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Sound, Never Change, Producers

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• But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Real, Rocks, Indie Rock

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