Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Warren Cuccurullo.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Warren Bruce Cuccurullo is an American musician, singer-songwriter, restaurant owner and former body builder who first worked with Frank Zappa during the 1970s. He was also a founding member of Missing Persons in the 1980s. In 1986, Cuccurullo joined Duran Duran, becoming a long-term member of the band until 2001. In 2022, along with Duran Duran, he will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.
It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
I'm doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.
I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.
Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
Making music is fantastic.
You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.
Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.
It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.
You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
Missing Persons was based in Los Angeles.
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.