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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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"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."
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"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."
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"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."
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"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."
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"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."
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"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."
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"An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me."
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"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
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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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"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 just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas."
Music
"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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"Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think."
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"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."
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