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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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"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 last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."
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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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"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."
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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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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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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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"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 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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"I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do."
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"I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas."
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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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"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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