The Best Rivers Cuomo quotes

New country music comprises about five percent of what I hear per year. I enjoy it, but I don’t really take note of who’s singing it or writing it. — Rivers Cuomo

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

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

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

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I’m really into it. — Rivers Cuomo

I wouldn’t say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it’s a nice surprise. — Rivers Cuomo

Rock and Roll Over’ was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world. — Rivers Cuomo

I was fixated on Prince’s ‘Black Album’ for a long time. — Rivers Cuomo

I really don’t need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music–in fact, better music. — Rivers Cuomo

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

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

I listen to music a lot on the treadmill–I would test ‘Raditude’ songs out on the treadmill. — Rivers Cuomo

The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill. — Rivers Cuomo

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don’t have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake. — Rivers Cuomo

I never feel guilty about liking music. — Rivers Cuomo

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

I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends… I just want to disappear and study. — Rivers Cuomo

If enough people out there want a physical product, I’ll be happy to make one. I’d say about 10,000 people is ‘enough. — Rivers Cuomo

I’m constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music. — Rivers Cuomo

I think I’m a good dad. It’s hard. Ultimately, it’s our kids that have the final word. So we’ll have to ask them. — Rivers Cuomo

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records. — Rivers Cuomo

I guess I’m just a born performer or artist or sharer. I find the intimate details of my life compelling and interesting. I guess that I’m assuming that everyone else does, too. — Rivers Cuomo

I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it’s all about. — Rivers Cuomo

Most people don’t really need to hear a six–minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song. — Rivers Cuomo

The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake. — Rivers Cuomo

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star… I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks. — Rivers Cuomo

Cat Stevens’ music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind. — 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

Now that I’m a father, I’ve forgiven my parents. — Rivers Cuomo

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

Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically. — Rivers Cuomo

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

It could appear that I’m some kind of natural genius, but it’s just a million small lessons I’ve picked up over the years. — Rivers Cuomo

The most nerve–wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing ‘Saturday Night Live’ or ‘David Letterman.’ One of those shows. — Rivers Cuomo

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

People think I’m a freak or something, but I’m actually a really normal guy. — Rivers Cuomo

The bonds you make with those records when you’re 14, 15 and 16, they’ll never be broken, and nothing will ever be as strong as that. — Rivers Cuomo

Miley Cyrus’ ‘Party in the USA’ kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out–of–control beautiful. — Rivers Cuomo

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever. — Rivers Cuomo

Meditation hasn’t separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It’s just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged. — Rivers Cuomo

I’ve always seen myself as a grown–up. Since I was a little kid. — Rivers Cuomo

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music. — Rivers Cuomo