Kim Gordon famous quotes

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries .
-- Kim Gordon

#Revolutionary #Anarchist #Natural

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.
-- Kim Gordon

#Just Being #Fit #Type

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.
-- Kim Gordon

#Thinking #Rocks #Play

When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.
-- Kim Gordon

#Art #Hands #Practice

Rap music is really good when you’re traumatized,
-- Kim Gordon

#Rap #Music Is #Rap Music

People pay to see others believe in themselves.
-- Kim Gordon

#Believe #People #Pay

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?
-- Kim Gordon

#Mean #Men #White

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones
-- Kim Gordon

#Phones

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
-- Kim Gordon

#Strong #Mean #Way

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.
-- Kim Gordon

#The End Of The Day #World #Ends

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.
-- Kim Gordon

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.
-- Kim Gordon

#Thinking #Trying #Too Much

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.
-- Kim Gordon

#Fearless #Performing

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart.
-- Kim Gordon

#Writing #Heart #Broken

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.
-- Kim Gordon

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Tolerance

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
-- Kim Gordon

#Certain #Audience

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.
-- Kim Gordon

#Play #Bass

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.
-- Kim Gordon

#Writing #Creativity #Thinking

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.
-- Kim Gordon

#Daughter #Mother #New York

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.
-- Kim Gordon

#Thinking #Rocks #Years

I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.
-- Kim Gordon

#Art #Criticism #Culture

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

#Thinking #Ukulele #Kind

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas
-- Kim Gordon

#Ideas #Playing Music

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

#Song #Art #Thinking

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think
-- Kim Gordon

#Thinking #People #Too Much

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

#Girl #Teenage #Thinking

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
-- Kim Gordon

#Sight #Singing #Bass

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

#Sides #Youth #Projects

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.
-- Kim Gordon

#Crazy #Mean #The End Of The Day

In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.
-- Kim Gordon

#Fashion #Hair #Class

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.
-- Kim Gordon

#Mean #Thinking #Musician