Difficult Quote by Lee Ranaldo

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

— 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

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

— 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

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

— Slash

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

— Lee Ranaldo

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

— Robin Gibb

I wouldn't want to do a solo project.

— Lauren Mayberry

'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what…

— Lee Ranaldo

And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish…

— Liza Minnelli

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas…

— Klaus Schulze

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and…

— Ken Hensley