Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

The bands that we've found we have something in common with are bands like The National or Tegan And Sara, and I feel like that's because all three of us come from more alternative rock backgrounds.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.

Authentic rock and roll is a sound that I've always been drawn to with bands like Brand New and Jimmy Eat World.

I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at.

The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

In the early and mid 1990s, every musician I knew was obsessed with Helium. The 'Pirate Prude' EP and 'Pat's Trick' played on repeat at nearly every gathering I attended. And we didn't just listen to these records - we discussed them, the worlds they opened, novelistic and strange.

I've never heard anything like 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.' The Arctic Monkeys are my favorite band, and that is my favorite album.

I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.

I've always been indie.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

I like alternative music, so I like to hear new bands.

When my first record came out, it was in the middle of the real Muse, Keane, British thing, and that beat-driven thing wasn't really that cool at the moment.

I grew up listening to the alternative rock music from the '90s. Some of my favorite bands included Dinosaur Jr, Guided By Voices, and Cobra Verde.

I'm not really into rap.

The last time I really got into new music that wasn't heavy metal was probably like... TV on the Radio? I think that was it. That's the last time.

I never really followed grunge.