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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 don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."

"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."

"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."

"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."

"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."

"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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