Sonic Youth Quotes
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Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.
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I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America. My father brought them home. It was definitely the earliest musical influence on my life, and still one of the greatest.
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It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.
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The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited at a certain point, and you want to get done the things you want to get done. You don't want to leave things undone, because you only have a limited amount of time.
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Change is always good. It brings you to a new place.
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I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you.
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Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.
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I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
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Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.
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Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.
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Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.
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The last two records I liked playing a lot.
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Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.
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I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm.
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I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.
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I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.
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I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
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I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
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I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older.
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Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?
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I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me.
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I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.
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Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.