American - Musician | February 3, 1956 -
We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.
Lee Ranaldo
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It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.
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Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.
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Whenever I work on an album and the time comes to do all the artwork, the only thing I think of is the LP artwork. When we worked on the 'Electric Trim' artwork, we spent weeks and weeks making the LP artwork great, and then the CD artwork came together in a day or two. The LP is what's important to me.
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One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an attention span for listening time, you know? You could listen and give it all your attention. Put on something that's 70 minutes, and nobody's sticking around past the first 20 or 30 minutes.
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One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.
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I'd rather have vinyl and a download code than a CD any day.
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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.
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Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.
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I've always played acoustically - it's how I learned. I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Dylan and what have you.
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In the week following Sandy, we weren't flooded, but we were without everything else - I ended up living by candlelight - no phones, no computers, no light, no power. If we took a walk at night to go and find something to eat, it was completely black, with no lights coming out of the windows, no street lights: a very apocalyptic feeling.
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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.
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