Lee Ranaldo Quotes

We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and make references to everybody from John Cage to whoever.

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• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

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• I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

  

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

  

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• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

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• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

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• I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.

  

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• I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

  

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• What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

  

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• The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

  

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• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

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• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

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• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

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• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

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• If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.

  

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• In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

  

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• Republican government presupposes decent and admirable qualities among its citizens - so we should be serious about strengthening character and inculcating virtue.

  

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• I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.

  

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• I've never been one to learn scales and do exercises. Maybe I'm lazy, but I just don't take to that kind of thing. Learning other people's songs is enjoyable, and my fingers tend to go to new places because I'm not playing my music, the stuff that comes naturally to me.

  

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• I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

  

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• We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and make references to everybody from John Cage to whoever.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Music
  • Noise
  • Journalists