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Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, songwriter, and visual artist. Born in Rochester, New York, Gordon was raised in Los Angeles, California, and studied art at the Otis Art Institute. She later rose to prominence as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of the New York City-based alternative rock band Sonic Youth.

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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.

Fifth, Jim, Kind, Member, Thinking, Ukulele

Fashion, at modern time, was actually a way for women to go out in the world. There was one painting of a woman sitting at a café, drinking a beer by herself and kind of pretending to read but really watching people, that sort of thing. It fascinated me.

Beer, Drinking, Fashion, Painting, People, World

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

Feelings, Listen, Melancholy, Sad, Sometimes, Want

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

Girl, Littles, Masquerading, Power, Spices, Talks

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

Clothes, Communicate, People, Symbols

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.

Clothes, Empty, Fall, Mean, Signifiers

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

California, Nostalgic, People, Thinking, Time

I think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

Like, Problem, Recognition, Thinking, Unconventional

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.

Art, Cry, Hands, Head, Laugh, Practice

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas

Happened, Ideas, Music, Playing Music, Start

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.

Annihilate, Crazy, Culturally, Desirable, Mean, The End Of The Day

I always wanted to rebel.

Rebel, Wanted

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

Music, Music Is, Rap, Rap Music, Traumatized

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

Mean, Musician, Think, Thinking

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

Art, Body, Done, Feeling, Feelings, Feminist

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.

Culture, Musical, Play, Rocks, Thinking, Training

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

Annihilate, Day, Ends, Expected, The End Of The Day, World

Women are natural anarchists. . .

Anarchist, Anarchists, Natural, Women

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.

Art, Come, Like, Play, Song, Thinking

The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love. . . Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years.

Although, Children, Love, Thinking, Years

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