We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build… — Lee Ranaldo 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
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
I'm married to a Canadianm so I have a lot of fond thoughts about Canada. I think about the prairies of Manitoba,… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live… — Lee Ranaldo 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
I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music - songs and… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I absolutely love Las Vegas. I've been there a bunch of times on my own. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Whenever I work on an album and the time comes to do all the artwork, the only thing I think of is… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
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 Image
