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"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."
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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
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"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves."
History
"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
"The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given."
Liberal
"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 never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience."
Experience
"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."
Being
"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making."
Nature
"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
Ideas
"No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore."
People
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