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Lee Ranaldo

(1956) Guitarist

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Lee Ranaldo is a guitarist.

Quick Facts About Lee Ranaldo

Born: February 3, 1956
Profession: Guitarist

About Lee Ranaldo

[Wikidata] American rock musician (born 1956)... | [Wikipedia] Lee Mark Ranaldo is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as guitarist and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist

Quotes by Lee Ranaldo

We've been around long enough that there have certainly been people at every stage of our career telling us about one or…

Enough

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I guess I see 'Goo' half as a really New York record because I think there are a lot of really particular…

I think

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It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

About

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I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it…

Change

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'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind…

Band

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Signing to a major label was an experiment for us. It was a challenge: working in a big studio with a producer…

Band

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New York always has a lot of creativity going on.

Always

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We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think…

Change

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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…

Audience

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One of the things I loved - or I love still - about this Occupy movement is it's got a very gentle…

Face

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We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

Early

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Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made,…

Beatles

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The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time…

Bed time

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My main pedal is the Ibanez Analog Delay, the AD9 or the AD80, whichever one it is. That's my go-to pedal for…

Analog

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The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

Anywhere

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My wife's from Canada, and we're Canadian citizens.

Canada

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'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression…

Europe

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Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build…

Long

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When we first started, in the early Eighties, we had some crappy guitars - Japanese knockoffs that wouldn't hold standard tuning. Later,…

Better

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When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and…

Dance

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You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or…

Day

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I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to…

Bicycle

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By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud…

Different points of view

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I've always played acoustically - it's how I learned. I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Dylan and…

Always

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When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's…

Being

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