One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories. — Lee Ranaldo Beatles Copy Share Image
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
I don't mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique. — 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
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
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
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
Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity. — 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… — Lee Ranaldo Audience Copy Share Image
Obviously, for Geffen, if it wasn't for us, it's quite possible that bands like Nirvana or Beck would not be on the… — Lee Ranaldo Bands 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 Beauty 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
Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that… — 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
Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and… — Lee Ranaldo Abstract 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
Signing to a major, there weren't many bands from our sphere that were doing it. I mean, obviously R.E.M. had done it,… — Lee Ranaldo Bands 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
One of the things I loved - or I love still - about this Occupy movement is it's got a very gentle… — 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
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
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
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
We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen. — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to… — Lee Ranaldo Bicycle Copy Share Image
I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained… — Lee Ranaldo Art Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and… — Lee Ranaldo Books Copy Share Image
We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's… — 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 Amazing 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 Acoustic guitar 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 always think that, for me, being someone who comes out of electric guitar experimentation, the idea of playing acoustic guitar is,… — Lee Ranaldo Acoustic guitar 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 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
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
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
