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After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
It is fun to smash guitars.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and very improvisational, abstract stuff on the other. I don't see any reason music should exclude one or the other, and I think the pairing of them together makes for very interesting music in a lot of ways.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats, but before that, it was a lot of science fiction.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy's friends.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I feel like, 'Oh, if they're still around in two years, I'll see what they're up to.'
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
In a certain way, we felt almost like spies in the major label world. We were coming from some other world, and we somehow got our foot in the door and crept in and were prowling around, checking things out and taking back reports from the front.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of major stores that weren't on the tip of knowing what was happening and weren't stocking our records as readily as they were stocking, you know, Guns 'n' Roses or Billy Joel or whatever the hell. That certainly changed, and it changed rapidly after Nirvana's rise, that's for sure.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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My main pedal is the Ibanez Analog Delay, the AD9 or the AD80, whichever one it is. That's my go-to pedal for short delay. I don't think I could live without that pedal.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more interesting than where music was.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth