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Band Quotes by Lee Ranaldo

17 Band quotes by Lee Ranaldo

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Lee Ranaldo’s reflections on bands offer a glimpse into his long‑standing love of group dynamics. Across seventeen statements he balances the raw energy of rehearsals with the subtle chemistry that keeps a line together. It’s a compact but vivid portrait of his perspective on making music as a collective.

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Every band runs its course.

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We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

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We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

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Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room.

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I think Thurston's and my weird tunings lent Sonic Youth a very different sound from the get-go. In the band's 30 years…

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I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink…

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When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it…

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I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest…

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We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's…

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I've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's…

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Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it…

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I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands…

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Our audience seems to be able to handle whatever kind of weird opening acts we turn them on to. I mean, sometimes…

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Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything…

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We're obviously not a platinum-selling band, and yet we've managed to maintain a career on a major label through all this time,…

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Signing to a major label was an experiment for us. It was a challenge: working in a big studio with a producer…

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'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind…

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It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

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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…

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New York always has a lot of creativity going on.

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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…

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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.

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One of the things I loved - or I love still - about this Occupy movement is it's got a very gentle core. I…

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We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

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Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made, I was…

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The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited…

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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.…

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The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

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