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Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.
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When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and things like that.
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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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One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an attention span for listening time, you know? You could listen and give it all your attention. Put on something that's 70 minutes, and nobody's sticking around past the first 20 or 30 minutes.
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We're not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We're pretty much making it up as we go as far as the sounds we're creating. Oftentimes, the song will be inspired by just a certain kind of block of sound that somebody creates.
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We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.
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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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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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'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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The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.
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Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.
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I really liked the Jean-Luc Godard movie, 'Film Socialisme.'
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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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Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
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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.
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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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To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.