170 Quotes by Kim Gordon

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

Everything people call fabulous or amazing lasts for about ten minutes before the culture moves on to the next thing.

Everyone’s so interior now, they’re not really looking around them. They’re on their phones.

I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone’s noticing me.

In England, people had been loudly proclaiming the death of the guitar and the birth of the synthesizer, but Sonic Youth and other American guitar bands started to create a buzz.

Unless you’re singing something that’s kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it’s just difficult.

I remember how the book talked about the pressure to please and be perfect that every woman falls into and then projects onto her daughter. Nothing is ever good enough. No woman can ever outrun what she has to do. No one can be all things – a mother, a good partner, a lover, as well as a competitor in the workplace.

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.

That stage in life when older people assume that just because you’ve graduated college you know who you are, or what you’re doing, and in fact most people don’t.