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Song Quotes by Chris Cornell

50 Song quotes by Chris Cornell

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A child listening to the Beatles alone shows how music can become a habit that fuels inspiration. The quotes say that creating something that moves you can also move others, and that writing a song for fun is just as real. They also note that a true musician can walk into a room with only an instrument and hold an audience’s attention.

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Music is supposed to be inspired.

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When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

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What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

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There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.

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Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs.

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If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race…

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Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.

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I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone…

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The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.

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I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

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When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band.…

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That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in…

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One thing that I have thought ever since Temple of the Dog is that I would never say no to an interesting…

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'Superunknown,' maybe more than most albums, didn't reveal itself to be what it was until the very end - literally until we…

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You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different…

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Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your…

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As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone,…

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A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's…

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If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're…

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In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, 'We make great albums and write great albums - but don't…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and…

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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…

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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…

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I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less…

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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…

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'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.

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It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

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I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

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Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

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I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and…

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A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.

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No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

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I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for…

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I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would…

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Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because…

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I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts…

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I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than…

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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…

Music is supposed to be inspired.

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…

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…

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those…

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.

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…

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…

I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to…

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…

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing…

It's good for me to be involved in different things.

I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from…

And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and…