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
I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though. — 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
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
It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never… — 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
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a… — 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
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
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
'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)
