Sonic Youth Quotes
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When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.
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I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room.
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Sometimes, you don't know where your inspiration's going to come from.
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Every band runs its course.
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I'm a mom, but I don't always want to look just like that.
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One of the key guitars in my career has been an early-Seventies Fender Telecaster Deluxe that I had before Sonic Youth started and that I played pretty much throughout Sonic Youth.
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Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band, because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
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We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.
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When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
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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.
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My solo shows require a sit-down, indoor space.
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We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.
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No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.
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Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.
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As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more as a continuum than a periodic thing. We're just in the studio making the next record, and we don't relate it to anything other than what's going on at the moment.
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I grew up in the early '70s in New England.
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I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.
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I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.
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We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.
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Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything gets worked over by the band and kind of co-written by everyone in the end because everyone's ideas get contributed to it.
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My wife's from Canada, and we're Canadian citizens.
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Obviously, for Geffen, if it wasn't for us, it's quite possible that bands like Nirvana or Beck would not be on the label.
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It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
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One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.