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Kim Gordon
American
Musician
Born:
Apr 28
,
1953
Art
Me
Music
People
Think
You
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It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.
Kim Gordon
You
Amazing
Pretending
How
Just
Many
Things
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?
Kim Gordon
Woman
Culture
Women
Natural
Made
Men
White
Society
Corporate
Anarchist
Way
Rules
Citizens
Kinda
Having
Had
Make
Because
Always
Been
Male
Up
Revolutionaries
Want
Against
Mean
Who
Rebel
Why
Second-Class
Second-Class Citizens
Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.
Kim Gordon
Phones
Interior
Looking
Everyone
Around
Them
Really
Now
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
Kim Gordon
Life
Music
Broken
Together
Trust
Impossible
Band
Starts
Say
Continue
Stops
Act
Hard
Playing
Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
Kim Gordon
Music
Good
You
Rap
Rap Music
Really
Traumatized
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.
Kim Gordon
Myself
Problem
Think
Guess
Despite
Recognition
Some
About
Stubbornness
Through
Had
Unconventional
Performing
Like
Also
Always
Expected
Get
Authority
Maybe
Wanting
Thing
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.
Kim Gordon
Music
Art
People
Song
Thinking
Kind
Record
Voice
Could
Come
Like
Piece
Because
Doing
Go
Did
Just
Where
Just Kind
Then
Cappella
Play
Play Music
Starting
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
Kim Gordon
Time
Writing
Thought
Own
Else
Lyrics
Kind
Record
About
Someone
My Own
Write
Had
Idea
Sing
Also
Because
How
Perplexed
Going
Asking
Really
Hard
Many
Hard Time
Play
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
Kim Gordon
Music
Ideas
Conceptual
Just
Happened
Start
Playing
I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.
Kim Gordon
Time
Those
More
Obscure
He
Stuff
Noisy
Most
Involved
Fairly
Than
Bands
Just
Experimental
Either
Mean
Two
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.
Kim Gordon
Music
Great
You
Girl
Think
Teen
Teenage
See
More
Only
Know
She
Knows
Than
Going
Want
Who
Many
Activity
Play
Play Music
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
Kim Gordon
Try
Too Much
Think
Thinking
Too
About
Audience
Much
Should
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.
Kim Gordon
You
Youth
Side
Appropriate
Everything
Project
More
Only
Small
Sonic
Smaller
Sonic Youth
Lot
Many
Shows
Things
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.
Kim Gordon
Think
Jim
Member
Kind
Could
Looked
Well
Although
Around
Accidental
Us
Fifth
Really
Who
Sudden
Started
Playing
I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.
Kim Gordon
Sometimes
Listening
Jazz
Think
Kind
Promote
John
John Coltrane
Record
Some
About
Coltrane
Weird
Know
Doing
Go
Were
Up
List
Want
Influences
Grew
Subtle
Then
Jazz Record
Things
I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.
Kim Gordon
Alone
Home
People
Out
Except
Feel
Comfortable
Around
Exhausting
Anywhere
Really
Working
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
Kim Gordon
Music
People
Assumptions
More
Makes
Rock
Rock Music
Really
Certain
Enlightened
Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.
Kim Gordon
Art
Degree
Band
State
Collaborative
Constant
Something
Remained
Self
Part
Smaller
Always
Opposed
Integral
Done
Being
Working
I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it.
Kim Gordon
Life
Music
Quality
Too
Lyrics
Say
Somehow
Vocal
Entirely
More
Delivery
Implied
Like
Know
Always
Lot
Up
Itself
Get
Trying
Grew
Subtext
Much
Whole
Even
Away
Right
Things
Right Away
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.
Kim Gordon
Music
Art
Myself
Me
You
Age
Yourself
World
Free
Be True
Young
Gave
Wave
Back
Once
Outlet
Inspiration
Pursue
True
Know
Another
Around
Felt
Doing
Were
Lot
Art World
Bands
Get
Stop
Young Age
Hard
Away
Present
Start
Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression.
Kim Gordon
Politics
Music
Art
You
World
Petty
Both
Part
Feel
Like
Know
Equal
Because
Art World
Escape
Wanted
Forms
Expression
Play
Play Music
Desire
I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.
Kim Gordon
Art
You
People
Own
Other
Otherwise
Collaborated
Collaborating
My Own
Also
Make
Because
Always
Doing
End
Up
Done
Interesting
Things
I love the way Lady Gaga finds humour in fashion, but it's still very stylised.
Kim Gordon
Love
Fashion
Humour
Way
Finds
Still
Very
Lady
Lady Gaga
Gaga
I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.
Kim Gordon
Music
Art
Age
School
Since
New
Fell
Sort
Doing
Art School
York
Artist
Just
Moved
New York
Wanted
Early
Basically
Early Age
I'm a relatively shy person, but I love being challenged and putting myself in positions that are scary.
Kim Gordon
Love
Myself
Positions
Relatively
Scary
Putting
Person
Being
Challenged
Shy
Shy Person
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.
Kim Gordon
Me
Nervous
Ideology
Complexity
Kind
Sloppy
Some
Point
Allow
Because
Makes
Feminist
Any
Where
Little
Things
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