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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 started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15."

"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."

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

"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."

"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."
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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."

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

"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 just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."

"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."

"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 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."

"But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it."

"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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