Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

I don't even think my voice is really good.

If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.

Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.

I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.

I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.

We always did our own mixing.

I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.

The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.

Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.

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.