Thurston Moore Quotes
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.
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I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.
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I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
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People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.
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I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.
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The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.
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What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.
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Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.
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I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape.
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The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.
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I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.
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I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.
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For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.
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When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.
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I love playing music as much as if not more so than I did when I was 19; that compared to most of my peers is pretty surprising. I wake up every day and get really excited about doing stuff that I have been doing for the last 30 years. I just love it.
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In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.
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If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.
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Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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We try to equalize before the others have scored.
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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.
