"To the extent that I wear skirts and cheap nylon slips I've gone native"

"It’s hard to imagine where we would be without Sonic Youth. It’s unlikely another smart post-punk band founded around…"

"Sonic Youth albums aren’t as popular now as they were in the days of cassettes. That’s because now it’s a lot easier …"

"No artist did more for noise rock’s reputation — or for that matter noise’s reputation — than Sonic Youth. They broug…"

"Hailing from Long Island, New York, with noise rock stalwarts Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore sought to t…"

"Perhaps even more than Joni [Mitchell], trying to summarize the music of Sonic Youth with just one tuning is an exerc…"

"When I tell people I’m a trumpet soloist, there are three kinds of response I usually get: “Wow, what a great job!”, …"

"I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement."

"You have to let music take you over, put ego aside, be a clean conductor – in the electrical sense."

"To give an idea of how extraordinary a six-part fugue is, in the entire Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, containing for…"