Drummer 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

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

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

Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands.

— Stephanie Savage

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

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— Lee Ranaldo

I think Thurston's and my weird tunings lent Sonic Youth a very different sound from the get-go. In the band's 30 years - aside…

— Lee Ranaldo

I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again…

— Rickey Medlocke

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

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write…

— Ryan Hemsworth