Sonic Youth Quotes
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“[...] to overcome my own hypersensitivity, I had no choice but to turn fearless.”
― Girl in a Band
― Girl in a Band

“I remember how the book talked about the pressure to please and be perfect that every woman falls into and then projects onto her daughter. Nothing is ever good enough. No woman can ever outrun what she has to do. No one can be all things - a mother, a good partner, a lover, as well as a competitor in the workplace.”
― Girl in a Band
― Girl in a Band

“Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose you could say that Sonic Youth was always trying to defy people's expectations.”
― Girl in a Band
― Girl in a Band

“When people ask me what L.A. was like in the sixties, I tell them there wasn't as much terrible stucco as there is today: no mini malls with their approximation of Spanish two-story buildings, no oversized SUVs bulging out of parking-space lines. What used to say "Spanish-style" is now something diseased looking. Nobody seems to know how to stucco anymore.”
― Girl in a Band
― Girl in a Band

“One night I had been listening to [Goo], downstairs with Espen, we had been smoking hash, and I was lost in the music, literally, I saw it as rooms and corridors, floors and walls, ditches and slopes, small forests between apartment blocks and railway lines, and didn't emerge from it until the song stopped, it was like drawing breath because the next minute a new song started and I was caught again.”
― Min kamp 5
― Min kamp 5

“I've never been good with structure—doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.”
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“Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.”
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