Stephen Malkmus Quotes - Page 5

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• I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, People, Entertainment

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Fun, Elitist, Populist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Records, Busy, Flaws

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing this. Maybe the Pixies were, a little bit. Their lyrics were also disjointed, more psychosexual or something. That's part of youth, too, maybe, that you just feel like you're doing something different.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Space, Different, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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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

  Real, Mirrors, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Art, Honestly, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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

  Flames, Long, Personality

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Careers, Wife, Intellectual

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Stephen Malkmus

  Doors, Band

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Kids, Doors, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Hero, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?

  Stephen Malkmus

  People, Guy, Looks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Practice, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Being Cool, Affordable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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