Lee Ranaldo Quotes
As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more as a continuum than a periodic thing. We're just in the studio making the next record, and we don't relate it to anything other than what's going on at the moment.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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God does arithmetic.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
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That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.
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I never have anything to talk about.
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I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.
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Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
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We let go of many noises in the recording to preserve the environment that was there. I feel that, more than a record, we took a photo of that moment in our lives that was a valuable hinge for each other’s paths.
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In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
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As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more as a continuum than a periodic thing. We're just in the studio making the next record, and we don't relate it to anything other than what's going on at the moment.
