When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music - songs and… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
We've been around long enough that there have certainly been people at every stage of our career telling us about one or another record… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular New York… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind of capped… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
Signing to a major label was an experiment for us. It was a challenge: working in a big studio with a producer was a… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think we felt… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
One of the things I loved - or I love still - about this Occupy movement is it's got a very gentle core. I… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made, I was… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
My main pedal is the Ibanez Analog Delay, the AD9 or the AD80, whichever one it is. That's my go-to pedal for short delay.… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share
