What Nirvana’s success means is that certain radio stations now have their ear more cocked to bands like us; they’re more open to playing more stuff. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody’s really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
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 group. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
I read a lot of science fiction, and it’s ingrained, in a certain way, and I’ve been very involved with Kerouac and the Beats, but before that, it was a lot of science fiction. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
One of the key guitars in my career has been an early-Seventies Fender Telecaster Deluxe that I had before Sonic Youth started and that I played pretty much throughout Sonic Youth. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
Usually my records are made trying to capture the essence of a band playing in a room. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers – people from Merce Cunningham’s company and things like that. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
We got our first significant pieces of press in the ‘New York Rocker’ from early gigs at CBGB. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
