George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I look at those pictures all the time and think, 'Wow, I was hot.' Just, you know, I think… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Traditionally, when we lived here [in Portland], we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
'Silence Kid' starts with a broken classic-rock intro. It's funny to hear us do that. Obviously, we weren't skillful rock stars. Then it's spinning… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
Traditionally, when we lived here [in Portland], we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and I close… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
![“Traditionally, when we lived here [in Portland], we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different kinds of music. I don't listen to any of those Internet radio things. I have iTunes on my thing, but I've never bought a single thing on it. Except for…” quote by Stephen Malkmus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/841/stephen-malkmus-2984_call-me_traditionally-when-we-lived-here-in-port_100182.jpg)
