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Kim Gordon

"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 woreâ€¦Still, I've always believedâ€”still doâ€”that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside."

Source : Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.113, Faber & Faber

Kim Gordon

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“I don't release many records just as "Fennesz," so when I do, I want to plan everything in detail. It's not that I want to really lead the listener somewhere; it's more about me being satisfied with a project.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more about the suffering of the victim. A criminal trial is only incidentally a therapeutic or cathartic process for victims. But truth commissions, as we saw in South Africa, have the advantage of giving tens of thousands of people the opportunity to tell their stories, and not only does that contribute to healing but it also contributes to reconciliation, especially when perpetrators also come and express contrition.”
“LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.”
“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.”

Source : Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of my work, from photography to fashion design, is about and around music.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“I left my Phillie at home, Do you have another? I wanna get blunted, my brother.”
“You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.”
“Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.”

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