Norman Reedus Quotes

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.

Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.

I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.

Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands.

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

I don't know if Kim Gordon does collaborations but I'd love to work with her on something one day.

Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always about putting together a time-based composition - and that is exactly what songwriting is, in its classic form.

Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.

The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

I'm a little left of center, for sure, with Angels & Airwaves. But even when I get really weird, it's not that weird. It's not like some obscure Sonic Youth record or something. We don't take it quite that far. But what we do like are crescendos, and we do like when a song catches you off guard and it gives you the chills up and down your arms.

I just play Cure music, whatever that is.

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.

The group disbanded prematurely in 1983, but its records made a sizable mark: Mission of Burma became a band's band; leaving noticeable impressions on the likes of Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo.