Rivers Cuomo Quotes

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

If you enjoy and become a fan of Tony Rock, I really appreciate it! But, I do my comedy for me, so I don't try and please everyone or appease anyone. In the end, it's for me.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I make the kind of music I like.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.