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" I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people. "
Kim Gordon
People
Comfortable
Alone
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" I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode. "
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" 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. "
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" A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing. "
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" Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self. "
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" I'm a mom, but I don't always want to look just like that. "
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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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" It is fun to smash guitars. "
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" It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music. "
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" I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something. "
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" I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality. "
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People
" I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years. "
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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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" 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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See
" I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really. "
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Even
" It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. "
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Me
Sing
Really
" I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing. "
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" I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. "
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" Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise. "
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" It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue. "
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" I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised. "
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" I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?' "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that. "
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" The last two records I liked playing a lot. "
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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. "
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" I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. "
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" Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. "
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" In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. "
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