Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Joseph Malkmus is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 May 1966
CitySanta Monica, CA
CountryUnited States of America
song heart self
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.
engineers studios
Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
song rocks hip-hop
Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.
people musician like-you
There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.
book writing college
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
song practice arranging
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.
goal different chance
There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.
song radio showers
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
records busy flaws
It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.
sound never-change producers
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
moving scenarios describing
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
mixing
We always did our own mixing.
song writing goal
Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.
america people majority
I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.