I always think that, for me, being someone who comes out of electric guitar experimentation, the idea of playing acoustic guitar is, in itself, kind of a radical move. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
I’m so used to knowing what to do with an electric guitar and amplifier, but with an acoustic guitar, it’s different, but I still have an amp and a whole bunch of pedals. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
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 transformed by the band. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
You don’t work in isolation anymore. Anybody can write a song and put it up on the Internet the next day. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We’re lucky enough to live on a bit of high ground, so we weren’t flooded… but it was intense. Since there was no light, water, or electricity, I spent a lot of time playing acoustic guitar in the evenings. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
I gravitated to New York City in the late ’70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university. Lee Ranaldo Read Quote
