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Thurston Moore
American
Musician
About the author
It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#People
The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#Philosophy
#Liberal
Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#Ideas
#Meaning
We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
Rock'n'roll saved my soul.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Now
#People
#Old
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Time
#History
#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,
American
Musician
#Now
#People
#Poetry
Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#Kids
#Being
No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#People
#Being
#War
#Peace
#Trying
#Word
#Nature
I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#People
#Parents
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#Religion
#Americans
#Philosophy
#Religious
#Buddhism
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,
American
Musician
#Now
#Words
#People
#Youth
#Writing
#Expression
#Interest
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,
American
Musician
#Now
#Popular
#Culture
#Music
We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#Music
I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#Care
I grew up in the early '70s in New England.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
#England
I have to reign myself in a lot.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.
Thurston Moore,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Culture
#History
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#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,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Guitar
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Being
#Youth
#Idea
#Song