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I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.
Kim Gordon
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Kim Gordon
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
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Singer-Songwriter
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Rochester
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Kim Althea Gordon
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I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.
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I think of myself as unconventional. 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.
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Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.
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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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Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.
Kim Gordon
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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The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years.
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I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.
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Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
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For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.
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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.
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I always wanted to rebel.
Kim Gordon
If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.
Kim Gordon
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.
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Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.
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I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.
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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.
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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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No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.
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