Top 22 Quotes by Stephen Malkmus

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

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.

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

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.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

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

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

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

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.

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.