Band Quote by 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 a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.

— Lee Ranaldo

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

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

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

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— MO

The business of making music is changing so radically because of the Internet. It's become a lot more democratic in one respect, but in…

— John Rzeznik

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

— Thurston Moore

Every so often, you have a producer or a songwriter or both or a team that comes along and really reshapes and redefines sonically…

— Raheem DeVaughn