Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Kids think of us as being totally over the hill. Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs… — 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
I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
In Sonic Youth, at the end of 'Expressway to Yr. Skull,' we'd tap on the backs of our guitars to get this… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I really do prioritise humour in people. It's a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the… — Jez Williams 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've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so… — 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
Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about.… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
When a fan buys a ticket, we learn an enormous amount about them: What bands they like, where they live, how much… — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
“A very tall bearded guy was standing in a doorway, smoking a cigarette. “Hey”, he said. “Hi,” I said. “Excuse me, do… — Moby Copy Share Image
I'm a little left of center, for sure, with Angels & Airwaves. But even when I get really weird, it's not that… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
“I can appreciate that,” says Henry. He’s adding to the list. I look over his shoulder. Sex Pistols, the Clash, Gang of… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
As a teenager my favorite band was Sonic Youth, and everything they did was always obviously them, and always so artistic. There… — MO Copy Share Image
By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I'll always remember listening to Mark Radcliffe playing Sonic Youth. I felt this instant connection, it offered me a peak behind a… — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth… — Lee Ranaldo 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… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
The group disbanded prematurely in 1983, but its records made a sizable mark: Mission of Burma became a band's band; leaving noticeable… — Anthony Fantano 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… — Kim Gordon 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
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
I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
One of the key guitars in my career has been an early-Seventies Fender Telecaster Deluxe that I had before Sonic Youth started… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
