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

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

— 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

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I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band…

— John Philip Sousa

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Thurston Moore

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to…

— Ben Gibbard