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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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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