Top 28 Quotes by Thurston Moore

We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.

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

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.

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

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.

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.

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.

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.