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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.”

51. “I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “But, then again, I wouldn’t call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.”

52. “But, then again, I wouldn’t call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn’t. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.”

53. “Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn’t. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “I’ve lost my writing skills since college. I couldn’t write a book. It would take a long time.”

54. “I’ve lost my writing skills since college. I couldn’t write a book. It would take a long time.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “I think it’s just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.”

55. “I think it’s just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “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 singer, I wouldn’t mind just – not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.”

56. “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 singer, I wouldn’t mind just – not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.”

57. “Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.”

59. “What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it’s too much of me maybe.”

60. “I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it’s too much of me maybe.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “There’s something in life that’s cool, it’s relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it’s elitist.”

61. “There’s something in life that’s cool, it’s relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it’s elitist.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “The word “down,” is very musical. It just always comes.”

62. “The word “down,” is very musical. It just always comes.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “I’m not dying for things to say.”

63. “I’m not dying for things to say.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.”

64. “I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it’s far better to give new records a try.”

65. “If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it’s far better to give new records a try.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “With some songs, I have written narratives or I’ve tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.”

66. “With some songs, I have written narratives or I’ve tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “I’m thinking, I’m singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don’t sound like him enough, ever.”

67. “I’m thinking, I’m singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don’t sound like him enough, ever.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren’t, so that’s a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.”

69. “You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren’t, so that’s a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “I don’t even think my voice is really good.”

70. “I don’t even think my voice is really good.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don’t listen to the lyrics.”

71. “If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don’t listen to the lyrics.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it’s all I know to be productive.”

72. “Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it’s all I know to be productive.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.”

73. “Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.”

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.”

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

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Stephen Malkmus Quote: “There’s no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.”

75. “There’s no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.”

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