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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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)
