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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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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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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Jill Soloway is a friend of mine. She does 'Transparent,' and she's amazingly funny and brilliant and bright. And I love her show.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities
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If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.
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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.
