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Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
Kim Gordon
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Kim Gordon
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
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Fashion Designer
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Kim Althea Gordon
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I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.
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I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.
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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.
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Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
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I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop culture, it's so hard not to have these expectations of what a relationship should be. So I constantly feel like I have to bat those expectations down.
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People pay to see others believe in themselves.
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Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.
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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.
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I always wanted to rebel.
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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.
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I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.
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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.
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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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