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Kim Gordon

"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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"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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"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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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."

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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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"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."
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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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"I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music."
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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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"Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think."
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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 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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"It's really hard for me to sing and play bass."
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"I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas."
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"I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do."
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