It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust.… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age.… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I do retweet some of the things that people say about the things I've done, but I don't necessarily want to use it to… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
