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 guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America… — 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
The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can… — 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
We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights… — 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
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Pop music catches on like a meme. It just takes a little bit of tinder, and it can become a phenomenon. You… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
'Summer Babe' is the start of Pavement front-loading their albums with the catchiest song first. — 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
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