Song Quotes by Kim Gordon

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

— Kim Gordon

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

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La…

— Kim Gordon

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing…

— Kim Gordon

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even…

— Kim Gordon

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being…

— Kim Gordon

In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.

— Kim Gordon

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

— Kim Gordon

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and…

— Kim Gordon

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

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has…

— Kim Gordon

A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest…

— Kim Gordon

And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was…

— Kim Gordon

Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would…

— Kim Gordon

I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture…

— Kim Gordon

I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of…

— Kim Gordon

I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you…

— Kim Gordon