Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining. — 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
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… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by. — 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
Things tends to often [consolidate] like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's… — 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
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'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
I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, "You're a dad, and how's fatherhood?" If Bob Dylan or Neil Young… — 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
It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always… — 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 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
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… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think… — 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
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
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
I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you… — 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
![“Things tends to often [consolidate] like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three.” quote by Stephen Malkmus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/042/stephen-malkmus-2984_agree_things-tends-to-often-consolidate-like-d_1773031.jpg)
![“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)
![“I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but…” quote by Stephen Malkmus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ba/stephen-malkmus-2984_done_i-know-the-world-doesn-t-need-maybe-anot_2993276.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)
