Chris Cornell

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not…

— Chris Cornell

Music is supposed to be inspired.

— Chris Cornell

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it…

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

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…

— Chris Cornell

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead.…

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

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

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three…

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.

— Chris Cornell

In spite of my lack of education, I didn't lack direction.

— Chris Cornell

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

The fans own the records and listen to them and love them. It becomes the soundtrack to some part of their lives,…

— Chris Cornell

My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

When you're out on the road touring and touring and then making records, you're just constantly looking forward, constantly working. You don't…

— Chris Cornell

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas?…

— Chris Cornell