Quotes by Rivers Cuomo - Page 2

I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Anxious
Evening
Fearful
Retreat
Go Away
Meditate
Once A Year
Overall
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With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Flow
Meditating
Mellow
Watched
Experiment
Purely
Scientific
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I think if I wasn't a musician, I would be a high-school band director or orchestra director. I like working with large groups of musicians and bringing out the dynamics and accomplishing something as a team.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Dynamics
Groups
Large Groups
Musician
Orchestra
Accomplishing
Bringing
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I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I'm really excited to do experiments like squeezing an egg into a bottle and growing crystals. I'm really getting into hobbies.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Chemistry
Crystals
Electricity
Experiments
Hobbies
Squeezing
Bottle
Egg
Shop
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I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
People
Please
Thinking
Want
Love Music People
Please Everyone
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It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Something New
Done Me Important
Me Song New
Box
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I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Bunch
Classical Guitar
Wall
Good Music Always
Bach
Classical
Grab
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I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, impermanence - these are things I'm acutely aware of. And I enjoy facing it all.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Enjoy
Thinking
Writing
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Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Burned
Decades
Fingers
Jam
Nine
Traditions
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I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Laundry
Wealthy
Nonstop
Powers
Super
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Growing up, I was a giant KISS fan, and the truth is the record I had was 'Rock and Roll Over,' and there wasn't even a clear picture of them in the packaging! So I really had no idea what they looked like; I just loved their music.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Clear
No Idea
Packaging
Rock And Roll
Truth Is
Picture
Giant
Looked
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In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Sick
Love Music Heart
Claim
Nineties
Passionately
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When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Polished
Actually
Came
Cd
Close
Commercial
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I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Each Day
Fright
Permanent
Stage
Stage Fright
Totally
Afraid
Equipped
Have Fun
Just Living
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I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Frustrated
Italian
Lifestyle
Opera
Touring
Back To School
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I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.'
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Hurt
Instinct
Prudent
Said
Share
Strong
Use
Voice
Me People Connection
Me Voice People
Connection
Often
Says
Troubled
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I think I've been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think 'Pinkerton' is about that a lot - seeing how, every time I've felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I 'acquire' them or feel like I've acquired them, the passion goes away.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Acquire
Skeptical
Time Passion Long
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I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Closing
Guilty
Instinct
Lines
Shack
Sorry
Apologized
Record
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I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Chorus
Conscience
Structure
Bridge
Formula
Toughest
Verse
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When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Myth
Rock Star
Trial And Error
Life Work Me
Assumptions
Counter
Error
Trial
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I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Bizarre
Imagery
Losing
Reading
Singing
Song
Metaphors
Tried
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I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven't seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Conservative
Different Kinds
Input
Listeners
Steer
Always Me Day
Always End Of The Day Me
End Of The Day Me Day
End Of The Day
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The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Agreement
Records
Want
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It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Scream
Besides
Our Music
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I always like balance. If I'm playing rock music all the time, chances are I'll start craving some lighter, poppier stuff, both to listen to and to play. I compare music to massage. If someone's been working on your back for a long time, you really want them to move down to your legs or something.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Balance
Compare
Craving
Legs
Long Time
Massage
Rock Music
Time Music Always
Time Music Start
Time Music Long
Chances
Lighter
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I signed up for eHarmony once, and it took three hours to fill out that online form - so many personal questions. Then I clicked on submit, and instantaneously they responded and said, 'We are sorry, but there is no one any where in the world that is appropriate for you.' So that was it - I gave up.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Appropriate
Form
Hours
Online
Said
Sorry
Submit
Three
Questions
Clicked
Fill
Gave
Instantaneously
Personal
Signed
Took
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It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Famous
Being Famous
Comfortable
Seems
Social Life
Life Best Great
Younger
Best Part
Introduce
Meet
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At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Band
Heavy
Heavy Metal
Metallica
Moved
Pixies
Records
Sonic Youth
Velvet
Youth
Job
Earlier
Influenced
Metal
Nirvana
Quickly
Sonic
Tower
Underground
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I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Being Real
Bizarre
Curiosity
Exploring
New Things
Rock Music
Routine
Music Me New
Music Me Curiosity
Led
Performer
Rehearsed
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I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Engineers
Executives
Music Business
My Generation
Producers
Short Hair
Songwriters
Suits
Business Music Look
Business Music World
Eighties
Extent
Metal
So Many People
Tends
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I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.
Rivers Cuomo / Musician
Caring
Song
Writing
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