Kim Gordon Quotes
There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.
When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.
If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.
Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.
I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.
You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.
You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.
There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.
In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.
I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.
Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.
Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.
I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.
I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.
I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.
I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.
That stage in life when older people assume that just because you've graduated college you know who you are, or what you're doing, and in fact most people don't.
I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.
Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.
. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.
