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born 1953 United States
Kim Althea Gordon (1953 Apr 28) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.
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I never think of myself as famous anyway, like, if anything, it’s barely famous.
The image a lot of people have of me as detached, impassive, or remote is a persona that comes from years of being teased for every feeling I ever expressed.
It was the tip of the iceberg…There’s some unseen wall of faceless men that I have to climb over…as if on a mission.
I like a certain amount of tension in music…I like the kind of music that maybe makes you think about the status quo.
Your life is hard to change. But at the same time, I've also always felt that I'm the same person now as I was at five, so I've been sort of reaching out to that too, in a way.
When I was growing up in the seventies, there were more open spaces. There weren't McMansions really. L.A. always had an interesting array of architecture in the houses. Like one would be a ranch house, another could be a Tudor house. It is fitting that there are all these different styles that almost were predetermined by L.A. being a place where different people moved.
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