Thurston Moore Quotes
"The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Liberal, Philosophy)
"Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it."
- Thurston Moore
"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Ideas, Meaning)
"We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors."
- Thurston Moore
"Rock'n'roll saved my soul."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Soul)
"We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Music, People, Now, Old)
"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: History, Time, Future)
"Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Poetry, People, Now)
"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Being, Kids)
"No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: People, Sabbath)
"It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: American)
"I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Nature, Peace, War, People, Being, Trying, Word)
"I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Listening)
"Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: People, Parents)
"Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Religion, Buddhism, Americans, Philosophy, Religious)
"Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: People, Expression, Interest, Now, Words, Writing, Youth)
"Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Music, Culture, Now, Popular)
"We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Music)
"I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Care)
"I grew up in the early '70s in New England."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: England)
"I have to reign myself in a lot."
- Thurston Moore
"I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band."
- Thurston Moore
"I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Experience, Balance)
"I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: History, Music, Culture, Want)
"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Nature, Music)
"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Guitar, Songs)
"Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song."
- Thurston Moore
(Related: Idea, Being, Song, Want, Youth)