Quotes by Chris Cornell - Page 4

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Music
Space
Be Kind
Comfortable
May
Person
Feel
Within
Lot
Space Music Always
Actually
Also
Less
Liked
Depressed
Down
Times
Even
Operate
Problems
Though
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I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I'm not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he's one of the best.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Amazing
Best
Ability
Guy
Mercury
Personality
Records
Voice
Vulnerability
Really
Come
Much
Out
He
Buy
Through
Best Time Amazing
Even
Still
His
Would
Queen
Rock
Terms
Technical
Technical Ability
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I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Eighth Grade
Finished
Showing Up
Alternative
Twice
Eighth
Grade
Ninth
Mainly
Seventh
Showing
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To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Fans
Music Fans
Prominence
Video
General
Degree
Early
Music Look Looking
Guys
Saw
Indie
Rock
Nirvana
Vicariously
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One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there's a finish line and that maybe there's a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Comfortable
Common
Finish Line
Getting Older
Smell
Life Time Your
Life Time Start
Lot
Pretty
Idea
Dilemmas
Down
Period
Getting
Finish
Older
Just Kind
Line
Main
Maybe
Slow
Roses
Settle
Start
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Soundgarden was incredibly democratic, and I was really proud of that. I felt like we got along better than most bands we toured with and most people we knew. And at the same time, when you're that democratic and concerned with each other's opinions, you're always concerned with what the other people think.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Concerned
Democratic
Time Better People
Time Better Always
Incredibly
Opinions
Same Time
Soundgarden
Toured
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My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Bob
Dust
Dylan
Folk Songs
Gold
Mass
Song
Very
As Far As
Back
Bob Dylan
Those
He
Favorite
Coming
First
Even
Rest
Far
First One
Folk
His
Incredible
Interpretations
Record
Rush
Sings
Where
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Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Mentality
Ramones
Rock Music
Absorb
Elvis
Embraces
Nirvana
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They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always interesting to see what they react to in whatever I'm working on at the moment. And they don't even want to discuss why. That's a lesson to remember: My son doesn't care about why.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Respond
Discuss
Immediate
Lesson
React
References
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It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Attempting
Normal
Periods
Problem
Time Long People
Time Always Long
Time Always Step
Call
Closed
Hang
Long Periods
Reclusive
Step
Tendency
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If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time. And also as a musician, if you do make money, it means you had to bite and scratch and kick the whole way to not get ripped off, because at every corner, there's somebody there waiting to trip you up and take a bigger chunk.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Better Off
Bigger
Musician
Ripped
Waiting
Time Business Money
Wanna
Bite
Chunk
Corner
Scratch
Trip
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I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Retiring
Seventies
Begin
Work Music Thinking
Blues
Dead
Drop
Older
Musicians
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You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and record a record is work, you know, arduous and unpleasant. Being able to write and record - that's a privilege. I don't forget the long days I spent working in a restaurant, when I wanted to be done so I could go home and work on a song.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Hiatus
Work Home Done
Work Home Together
Arduous
Go Home
Unpleasant
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I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Deserve
Geography
International
Proud
Prove
Rock Music
Scene
Seattle
Stage
Face
Based
Commercial
Fad
Rock
Music Scene
Soundgarden
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If you sold a million records, the only way you could be disappointed is if the guy down the street sold seven million. But you've got to start dodging bullets once you've sold that many records, because everybody wants to kill you. We're not in that position. We can still be very successful and not have to worry about wearing bulletproof vests.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Guy
Successful
Worry
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I would hope that the future would have an international community that's not just bent on commerce, but that's focused on refugees, of all kinds and from all places. We don't know that won't happen in the U.S. someday. It literally could be a crisis from climate change, or anything. I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Focus
People
Thinking
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It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.
Chris Cornell / Musician
People
School
Successful
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Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Judging
Reality
Song
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When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the beginning of our career and with every song we're thinking, 'This is what's creating us.' Now, nothing is creating us. We're well-created. We're there. It becomes just pure pleasure and you become sort of an archeologist of your own music. You don't judge it, because what's the point? It's a 30-year-old song. It just becomes fun.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Fun
Song
Thinking
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I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts. Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Art
Done
Letting Go
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I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'
Chris Cornell / Musician
Jobs
Night
Song
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