Rivers Cuomo Quotes

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

I never really followed grunge.

From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.

I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.

I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.