Band Quote by Lee Ranaldo

Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs as a…

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

— 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

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

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

— Lee Ranaldo

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it…

— 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

I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years…

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— Thurston Moore

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

— 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