Stephen Malkmus

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. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#flows #forget #just #kinda #listen

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#could #drawer #favorite #into #like

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#different #his #lyrics #narrative #nick

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#another #down #like #no point #point

We always did our own mixing. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#did #mixing #our #own

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. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#being there #delighted #dominate #famous #interviews

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#compatible #desperate #mission #stuff #write

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. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#created #freaks #little #living #only

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#radio #sang #shower #some #songs

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

— Stephen Malkmus

#did #just #mostly #much #never