Moment Quote by Chris Cornell

'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

— Chris Cornell

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

— Chris Cornell

I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but…

— Chris Cornell

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

— Randy Johnson

When I came out with 'Posse on Broadway,' I decided, enough with trying to imitate New York, enough with trying to imitate L.A., let's…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there…

— Emeli Sande

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like…

— Jon Fishman

I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool.

— Martie Maguire

There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.

— Mike McCready

Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to Seattle that…

— Phil Elverum

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

— Mariah Carey

The idea of having an indie rock "career" while living in a remote backwater like Seattle was too ridiculous to contemplate. It was simply…

— Bruce Pavitt