Lee Ranaldo Quotes

I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.

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• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

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• Study first, play afterwards.

  

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• Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

  

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• My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.

  

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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

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• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

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• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

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• There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.

  

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• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

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• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

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• I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

  

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• I don't have many easy songs.

  

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• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

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• I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

  

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• We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

  

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• Once I got married and had my children, I left the life. That's why I can walk away from this, i don't have to be looking for love. When you play to 100,000 people and you come off stage and there's nobody there for you, that's the saddest day of your life.

  

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• I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

  

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• Just because you are famous and rich doesn't make you successful.

  

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• My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

  

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• I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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