Rivers Cuomo Quotes

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I like to try new stuff and experiment. That's why I think it's entertaining to watch my matches, because you never know what I'm going to do, and you see things that you've never seen before.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

What's missing from pop music is danger.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading.

I find that I'm quite experimental. I'm drawn to the brighter and weirder things.

One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.