Could 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

I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— Lee Ranaldo

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

— Anonymous

I've been lucky enough to be in this amazing band, and to me, a band is really a collaborative unit, and that's definitely been…

— 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

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 allow the sonic qualities themselves to develop their own momentum. It's a kind of humbling experience to put the sound first instead of…

— Thomas Koner

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

As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more…

— Lee Ranaldo

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

— Tiffanie DeBartolo