Thurston Moore Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.”

“I grew up in the early '70s in New England.”

“Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.”

“No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”