Art Quote by Kim Gordon

Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.

— Lee Ranaldo

Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always…

— Lee Ranaldo

Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved…

— Kim Gordon

When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets…

— Lee Ranaldo

We weren't art students, but we definitely created our own style and were pretty influenced by Andy Warhol and all the stuff we read…

— Fred Schneider

Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.

— Lee Ranaldo

Most of the creative industries have been deskilled by these really powerful ideologies of punk in music and Warhol in the visual arts. I…

— David Longstreth

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave…

— Kim Gordon

When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the work. I…

— Laurie Simmons

When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.

— Lee Ranaldo

Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their…

— Genesis P-Orridge

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill. Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth.

— Thurston Moore