We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
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… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest… — 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
I've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Our audience seems to be able to handle whatever kind of weird opening acts we turn them on to. I mean, sometimes… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Signing to a major label was an experiment for us. It was a challenge: working in a big studio with a producer… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
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,… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind… — 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
