Lee Ranaldo Quotes
Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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'24' is such an iconic show.
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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
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Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
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The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.
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Nobody we've played this season, ... has come with this much size, this much talent and this much experience. North Carolina and Georgia Tech probably have the most overall talent. Now that they're healthy, they're probably believing they can do it.
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Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.
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The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.
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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
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Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback.
