The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't. — 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
If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool. — 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
Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work. — 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 Image
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
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 Image
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“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.” quote by Stephen Malkmus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3de/stephen-malkmus-2984_certain_there-s-probably-a-certain-confidence-in_1712434.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/841/stephen-malkmus-2984_call-me_traditionally-when-we-lived-here-in-port_100182.jpg)
