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'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind of capped off everything we set out to do when we started as a band, in terms of, like, wow, wouldn't it be great to make a record that a lot of people liked and listened to?
- Lee Ranaldo
#Everything
#Great
#People
#Recognition
We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think we felt very close to the people at the label after all this time or that they understood what we were trying to do. I don't have any regrets, because at the time we signed with Geffen, it was the right thing to do.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Change
#Long
#The Right Thing
#Time
When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Early
#Feel
#Life
#Someone
#Window
Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Long Time
#Long
#Sometimes
#Time
#Work
Sonic Youth has a very democratic process for the most part. It almost doesn't matter who brings in an initial idea; everything gets worked over by the band and kind of co-written by everyone in the end because everyone's ideas get contributed to it.
- Lee Ranaldo
#End
#Ideas
#Matter
#Process
#Youth
Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.
- Lee Ranaldo
#About
#Activity
#Music
#Social
#Youth
People assumed we called the record 'Murray Street' because of its proximity to the World Trade Centre, but that wasn't it at all. Before the attacks, I had simply been walking around taking pictures of things, and I had this photograph of the street sign. We felt it was somewhat evocative and decided to use it on the back cover of the album.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Back
#People
#Street
#Walking
#World
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.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Listening
#Nobody
#Past
#Perfect
#Time
After Hurricane Sandy, my family and I stayed in our apartment in lower Manhattan before things normalized. We're lucky enough to live on a bit of high ground, so we weren't flooded... but it was intense. Since there was no light, water, or electricity, I spent a lot of time playing acoustic guitar in the evenings.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Family
#Light
#Live
#Time
#Water
I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Always
#Boy
#Die
#Old Songs
#Old
In Sonic Youth, at the end of 'Expressway to Yr. Skull,' we'd tap on the backs of our guitars to get this low-level feedback, and if I leaned forward, and the guitar hung off my body, it would resonate differently.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Body
#End
#Feedback
#Guitar
#Youth
I don't mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Dirty
#More
#Old
#Romantic
#Unique
I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to play tennis and ride.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Bicycle
#Play
#Ride
#Tennis
#Unwind
My solo shows require a sit-down, indoor space.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Indoor
#Require
#Shows
#Solo
#Space
I guess, from the beginning, Thurston and Kim were the dominant singers in the band, and although I was singing in bands previously, I guess I mainly deferred to them a lot in terms of who was singing the bulk of the songs.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Band
#Beginning
#Guess
#Singing
#Who
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.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Always
#How
#Listening
#Up
#Young
I'm married to a Canadianm so I have a lot of fond thoughts about Canada. I think about the prairies of Manitoba, where my wife is from, and I have a lot of friends and relatives on both coasts and have spent a lot time in Canada from Nova Scotia to B.C. In some ways, it's a much more sane country than the U.S.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Country
#Relatives
#Thoughts
#Time
#Wife
I'd rather have vinyl and a download code than a CD any day.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Code
#Day
#Rather
#Than
#Vinyl
I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink Floyd records, I was really into them, especially 'Dark Side of the Moon.'
- Lee Ranaldo
#Dark Side
#Dark
#Moon
#Never
#Pink
Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Life
#Love
#My Life
#Years
#Youth
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.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Black
#Computers
#Light
#Power
#Walk
Change is always good. It brings you to a new place.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Change
#Good
#New Place
#New
#Place
I saw the Dead in '73 at Nassau Coliseum, and that same year, I saw them at the crazy, big Watkins Glen festival. It was just outrageous. It was amazing to see the reciprocity between them and their audience.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Amazing
#Audience
#Big
#Crazy
#Dead
#See
I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm a fan of downloading, both legal and illegal, and the open-source ethos that it harbours for the future is a good one.
- Lee Ranaldo
#Easy
#Future
#Good
#Legal
#Rights
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