Kim Gordon quotes

Kim Gordon is an American musician, visual artist, and writer, best known as a founding member of the influential alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Her innovative work has had a significant impact on music, feminism, and contemporary art. She continues to inspire new generations with her creativity and fearless approach. Here are 29 of her quotes:

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones. (Kim Gordon)
You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men. View quote
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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. View quote
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Rap music is really good when you're traumatized. View quote
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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. View quote
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My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time I was really puzzled by why people liked it. View quote
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It was the tip of the iceberg...There's some unseen wall of faceless men that I have to climb over...as if on a mission. View quote
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I like a certain amount of tension in music...I like the kind of music that maybe makes you think about the status quo. View quote
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I never think of myself as famous anyway, like, if anything, it's barely famous. View quote
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I don't wanna think that I'm influential or an icon or blah blah blah blah...Ultimately, I feel most confident when I'm just working. Thinking about ideas. That's how I'm most comfortable. Or performing in a group situation. View quote
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It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending. (Kim Gordon)
I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really. View quote
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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. View quote
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I still don't really feel like a bass player. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think. View quote
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I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas. View quote
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I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. View quote
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I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing. View quote
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Your life is hard to change. But at the same time, I've also always felt that I'm the same person now as I was at five, so I've been sort of reaching out to that too, in a way. (Kim Gordon)
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive. View quote
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Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. View quote
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There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do. View quote
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Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member. View quote
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Kim Gordon

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Photo: kcarpenter_, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Musician
Born: April 28, 1953
Quotes count: 29
Wikipedia: Kim Gordon

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