- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth Quotes
Not a number, but a way of showing up.
This collection touches on youth as both a social phenomenon and a personal outlook - referencing anti-drug campaigns aimed at young people, the pull of crowds during teenage years, and the classic idea that study defines youth itself. Also see Dream.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 what Sonic Youth has been.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.
- Before
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drummer
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cassette
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room.
- Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020