Kim Gordon Quotes

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Kim Gordon

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 28, 1953

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Kim Gordon

Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.

Kim Gordon

It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.

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I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.

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I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

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It is fun to smash guitars.

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I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

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I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode.

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Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

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I still don't really feel like a bass player.

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I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.

Kim Gordon

I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it.

Kim Gordon

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.

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I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you.

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And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.

Kim Gordon

Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.

Kim Gordon

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

Kim Gordon

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

Kim Gordon

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

Kim Gordon