I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes. — 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
One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I saw the Dead in '73 at Nassau Coliseum, and that same year, I saw them at the crazy, big Watkins Glen… — Lee Ranaldo Amazing Copy Share Image
When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's… — Lee Ranaldo Being Copy Share Image
As a rock fan, you read of the big labels and the multinationals and the big tours with road crews and semi-trailers… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more… — Lee Ranaldo Art Copy Share Image
Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I… — Lee Ranaldo Bands Copy Share Image
When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and… — Lee Ranaldo Dance 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
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
Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made,… — Lee Ranaldo Beatles Copy Share Image
I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
And for me, I think of the group as one in which there's always this pendulum swinging back and forth between writing… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Our audience seems to be able to handle whatever kind of weird opening acts we turn them on to. I mean, sometimes… — Lee Ranaldo Audience 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… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like… — Lee Ranaldo Direction Copy Share Image
When we first started, in the early Eighties, we had some crappy guitars - Japanese knockoffs that wouldn't hold standard tuning. Later,… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America.… — Lee Ranaldo America Copy Share Image
I'm so used to knowing what to do with an electric guitar and amplifier, but with an acoustic guitar, it's different, but… — Lee Ranaldo Acoustic guitar Copy Share Image
I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Being someone who plays gigs and finding many, many memorable ones in different ways, I guess I'd have to say I don't… — Lee Ranaldo Being 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 Body Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or… — Lee Ranaldo Day Copy Share Image
What Nirvana's success means is that certain radio stations now have their ear more cocked to bands like us; they're more open… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest… — 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
When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor,… — Lee Ranaldo 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
I've always played acoustically - it's how I learned. I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Dylan and… — 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… — Lee Ranaldo Change 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 Career Copy Share Image
I have great memories of the old Times Square - wouldn't have missed being here to see that place for the world… — Lee Ranaldo City Copy Share Image
My main pedal is the Ibanez Analog Delay, the AD9 or the AD80, whichever one it is. That's my go-to pedal for… — 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 Europe Copy Share Image
