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" In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. "
Kim Gordon
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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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" Rap music is really good when you're traumatized. "
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" 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. "
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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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" You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism. "
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" I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental. "
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" Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression. "
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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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" 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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" I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people. "
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" But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it. "
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Hard
Just
" No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive. "
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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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Broken
Life
Music
" I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. "
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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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" 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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Art
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" I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy's friends. "
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" I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise. "
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" Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age. "
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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 can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that. "
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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 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. "
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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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