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
When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the… — 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 learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons. — 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
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
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
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
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
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people… — 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
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
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
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
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
I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a… — 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
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
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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
