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
almost alone helped music plays primarily
Primarily I was doing the music here alone in the house, anyway, with the drummer. He helped with the engineering and plays on almost every song.
thinking play mind
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.
kids player records
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 "Call Me Maybe," for the kids or whatever. Carly Rae Jepsen.
kids doors play
When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.
memorable guitar play
Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.
care far sound takes worry
We just wanted to make something that we thought was beautiful-sounding and special, ... but how do you go about doing that? I don't know. But as far as sound goes, I don't worry about that. It takes care of itself.
goodbye rock roll
CRCR ... goodbye to the rock 'n' roll era.
great hit knowing music realistic timeless trying
We're realistic about knowing that we're not out to hit the mainstream, ... We're trying to make great music for the time, but not to make timeless music. You just try to make something special.
american-musician delighted dominate famous interviews problem seems
We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.
good
One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.
act deserve trade
Act like you deserve to win, trade up for a thicker skin.
black blues came developed generation rhythm rock third
In a way, we're the third generation of American rock music. It all came from the black rhythm and blues and then developed from there.
against art people
I'm not against making a living, ... I get to do art and people say I'm great, occasionally.
thinking hype people
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 it's general British-press hype.