Lee Ranaldo Quotes

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

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.

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.

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

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

There are songs out there in the world which, in some ways, seem so unmusical.

My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

Music doesn't have to sit within the confines of pop structure, you can really make stuff that's more visual.

John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.

I love futurist music.

I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.

OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

You want to embrace what the idea of pop music is. Not necessarily the stereotype of pop music; there was a time when you'd say 'pop music' and conjure up images of the Sweet, or Marc Bolan. That, to me, can be avant-garde still.

You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He's a stimulation chaser, and I relate to that.