Thurston Moore Quotes

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 Sonic Youth

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

  

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• Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

  

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• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  

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• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

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• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

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• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  

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• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

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• I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

  

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• People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.

  

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• I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.

  

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• When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

  

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• There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.

  

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• And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

  

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• I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

  

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• I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

  

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• The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

  

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• Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.

  

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• I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

  

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• Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

  

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• 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 Sonic Youth
  • Songs
  • Guitar
  • Written