I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me.… — 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
When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the… — 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
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
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
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
If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble.… — 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
I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The… — 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
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've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever. — 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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