Sleater Kinney Quotes

#1. After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Carrie Brownstein

#2. You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.

Janet Weiss

#3. I liken Sleater-Kinney to a freight train. It felt like this incredible, forward-moving, powerful energy.

Janet Weiss

#4. Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story ... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

Corin Tucker

#5. I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.

Fred Armisen

#6. Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

Rob Sheffield

#7. Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.

Janet Weiss

#8. Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

Slim Moon

#9. This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play ... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.

Janet Weiss

#10. With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Carrie Brownstein

#11. Relax, Amy, I'm not gay. I just like Sleater-Kinney. It's possible to like them and be heterosexual. It's not like I invited you to go see Tegan and Sara.

Emily Gould

#12. Life is too short because we die.

Christopher Locke

#13. The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

Serge Lang

#14. Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing:
If I started that gay rights group,
I must be gay.
So if i start an animal rights group,
what does that make me?
A giraffe?

James Howe

#15. When you let go you end up everywhere youre meant to be

Tone Lee

#16. Your eyes surprise me every time I look into them and they're looking back at me. Your mouth surprises me, because you always seem to smile more with one half that with the other, like part of you knows a funny secret that none of the rest of us, not even your other half, can guess.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#17. What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.

Ne-Yo

#18. A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

#19. All life is an experiment.'" "A

Ken Liu