Kim Gordon Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.
The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience.
If you're at all anxious, the city acts out your anxiety for you, leaving you feeling strangely peaceful.
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.
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older.
I've never been good with structure - doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.
I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.
Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes.
I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.
I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.
Everything people call fabulous or amazing lasts for about ten minutes before the culture moves on to the next thing.
The only really good performance is the one where you make yourself vulnerable, while pushing beyond your familiar comfort zone.
I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.
still carry around with me a battle between working conceptually - art based on some overriding idea - and my pure carnal sensory love of materials.
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
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.
But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.
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.
We'd have to start wearing long wigs and eye shadow and glitter pants." "Okay, okay, well, that's life,
. . . for me the page, the gallery, the stage became the only places my emotions could be expressed and acted out comfortably.
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.
There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.
I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.
...one of those mutual I-can-tell-you-are-a-super-sensitive-and-emotional-person-too sorts of connections.
I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.
Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again.
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.
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.