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"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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"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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"The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."
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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."
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"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."
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"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."
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"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."
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"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."
Punk
"There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do."
Project
"And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice."
Art
"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."
Time
"Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think."
People
"But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it."
Work
"I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas."
Music
"It's really hard for me to sing and play bass."
Play
"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."
Time
"I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do."
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