Amazing Quote by Lee Ranaldo

Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands.

— Stephanie Savage

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

— Lee Ranaldo

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

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 has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything gets worked…

— 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 played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and…

— Lee Ranaldo

As a teenager my favorite band was Sonic Youth, and everything they did was always obviously them, and always so artistic. There was another…

— MO

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

— Lee Ranaldo

Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

— Simon Rattle

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

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration,…

— John Gourley