36 Rivers Cuomo Quotes for You to Enjoy

Rivers Cuomo

American Musician

Born: Jun 13, 1970

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With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward. Rivers Cuomo

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

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I've always thought of myself as so unsuited to be a frontman. Rivers Cuomo

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I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time. Rivers Cuomo

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I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer. Rivers Cuomo

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Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach. Rivers Cuomo

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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

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I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else! Rivers Cuomo

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

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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

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Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited. Rivers Cuomo

Stuck Excited Makes Roles Just Want Us

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

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

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'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring. Rivers Cuomo

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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

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Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own. Rivers Cuomo

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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

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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

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Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful. Rivers Cuomo

Beautiful Jealousy Me Party Melodies Out-Of-Control USA

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

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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

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