My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual… — 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 think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the… — 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
![“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)
