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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Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.
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You give before you get.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.
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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.
