top of page
"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."
Standard
Customized
More

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
Author Name
Personal Development

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
Author Name
Personal Development

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."
Author Name
Personal Development

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
Author Name
Personal Development

"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame."
People

"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
England

"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."
American

"I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture."
History

"Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words."
People

"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
Ideas

"We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it."
Music

"I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things."
Care

"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."
Being

"Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion."
Religion
bottom of page