Kim Gordon Quotes

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• Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

  Kim Gordon

  Revolutionary, Anarchist, Natural

  "Kim Gordon Sounds Off" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. April 22, 2013.

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• 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

  "Unconventional Idol: Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2015.

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• People pay to see others believe in themselves.

  Kim Gordon

  Believe, People, Pay

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• 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

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• 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

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band: A Memoir”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• 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, Space, Hands

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• Women are natural anarchists...

  Kim Gordon

  Anarchist, Natural

  "Guitars, Guns, Goo". Interview with Kayla Guthrie, www.artinamericamagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the aesthetic didn't mix or something - black forms in the sand.

  Kim Gordon

  Beach, Black, Punk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  "Kim Gordon Sounds Off" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. April 22, 2013.

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• Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.

  Kim Gordon

  Clothes, People, Communicate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always wanted to rebel.

  Kim Gordon

  Rebel, Wanted

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• 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

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

  Kim Gordon

  Phones, Interiors

  "Kim Gordon on Giving Up Rock, Being a "Strong Woman," and Appearing on Girls". Interview with Seth Colter Walls, www.slate.com. September 03, 2013.

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• There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

  Kim Gordon

  Elements, Spatial, Adrenaline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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, Class, Icons

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

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• 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

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• Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, People, Too Much

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• The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.

  Kim Gordon

  Fall, Mean, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

  Kim Gordon

  Rap, Music Is, Rap Music

  "Kim Gordon Sounds Off" By Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. April 22, 2013.

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• For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

  Kim Gordon

  Fearless, Performing

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.

  Kim Gordon

  Pride, Newness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

  Kim Gordon

  Feelings, Want, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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