Kim Gordon Quotes

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

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• It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

  

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• I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

  

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• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

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• All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

  

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• I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

  

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• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

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• From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.

  

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• When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.

  

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• Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Singing