Lee Ranaldo Quotes

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth

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• Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • Change
  • Band

• Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Band
  • Timeless

• I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Think
  • Effect
  • Matrix

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Work
  • Model
  • Anymore

• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Band
  • Best

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Band
  • Politics

• The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Different
  • Small
  • Band

• I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Night
  • Band

• The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Society
  • Small
  • Band

• The idea of a band nowadays is 5 pretty boys, one with a tattoo, one with a shaved head, and on and on. What the fuck is that? I mean, I like Britney Spears, I think she's pretty, but I'm not from the Mickey Mouse Club-I'm from the Godzilla Club!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Band

• Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Time
  • Success
  • Band

• My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Reality

• My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Experience
  • Band
  • Rock

• As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume!

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Good
  • Band
  • Rock

• I think what's cool about Slayer is no matter how old their albums are, it's the one band to me that their sound is immortal. It never sounds corny to me. You can go back and listen to some Pantera and Metallica albums, and you're like, 'OK, great music.' But Slayer, you go back, and they always sound fresh and hard as hell.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • Great
  • Music
  • Band

• I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Death
  • Die

• What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

  

  Martin Short
  • Great
  • Character
  • Forever

• I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Life
  • Great
  • Together

• My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Father
  • Couple
  • California

• We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Mainstream
  • Anymore