Lee Ranaldo Quotes
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Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.
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Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
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I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular New York references on it, but I also see it, for us, as the first of our records that really opened up to the larger world around us.
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I really liked the Jean-Luc Godard movie, 'Film Socialisme.'
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'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what Sonic Youth has done through the years - being able to get very abstract and very concrete within the same song.
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To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.
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When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.
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I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest stuff we'd ever done, and the band was very much a vital entity.
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Our audience seems to be able to handle whatever kind of weird opening acts we turn them on to. I mean, sometimes it happens to be something like a band like Nirvana or Mudhoney, and other times, its just weird noise crews that we dig up.
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I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40 years ago or whatever, because that's not what New York is, really.
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You don't work in isolation anymore. Anybody can write a song and put it up on the Internet the next day.