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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I would love to have played Gollum.
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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 auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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The process of finding my voice as SpongeBob was to start by watching what Tom Kenny did, trying to do an impression of sorts, and then forgetting all about it and letting the voice become a second-nature thing.
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I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped-as it is when you've been shot across the chest.
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I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.
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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.
