Rivers Cuomo Quotes

I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.

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• Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fun

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Today
  • Internet

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fans

• We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Life
  • Money
  • Home

• But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Want

• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Story

• There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Present
  • Shopping

• In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Some

• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I really believe in the power of music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • People
  • Music
  • I Love

• It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Responsibility

• There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Society

• It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Pregnancy

• I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Music