I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
There was a period in my life where most of my musical career was spent in a band that was very aggressive,… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ended up on an international stage with huge… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
The first time I ever went to Hawaii, I was listening to island music, thinking, 'I could've been born here, and I'm… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Soundgarden signing to a major, then Mother Love Bone, and seeing the same happen to Alice in Chains. We were all suddenly… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead.… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band.… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain. — Chris Cornell Copy Share
I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
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… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
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… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. — Chris Cornell Copy Share
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and… — Chris Cornell Copy Share
