Chris Cornell famous quotes

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.
-- Chris Cornell

#Thinking #Creating #Entertainment

Everybody is influenced by someone.
-- Chris Cornell

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'
-- Chris Cornell

#Jesus #Thinking #Stones

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.
-- Chris Cornell

#Race #Car #Musical

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

#Character #Voice

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.
-- Chris Cornell

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
-- Chris Cornell

#Song #Writing #Rocks

She gives the night its dreams.
-- Chris Cornell

#Dream #Night #Expression

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.
-- Chris Cornell

#Stupid #Exercise #Artist

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.
-- Chris Cornell

#Kids #Tvs #Playing Music

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.
-- Chris Cornell

#Children #Adults #World

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.
-- Chris Cornell

#Texas #Play #Dollars

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.
-- Chris Cornell

#Believe #Healing #People

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

#Workout #Focus #Brain

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 away.
-- Chris Cornell

#Careers #Long #Going Away

Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.
-- Chris Cornell

#Song #Reality #Judging

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.
-- Chris Cornell

#Sports #Mountain #Mountain Biking

I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.
-- Chris Cornell

#Jobs #Independent #Successful

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.
-- Chris Cornell

#Thinking #Different #Culture

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.
-- Chris Cornell

#Letting Go #Rocks #Guitar

Be yourself is all that you can do.
-- Chris Cornell

#Being Yourself

Friends of mine that are from here or that have spent time here have told me about Israel and how warm the people are and that I should someday come here.
-- Chris Cornell

#Israel #People #Someday

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.
-- Chris Cornell

#The End Of The Day #Fans #Ends

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
-- Chris Cornell

#Two #People #Musician

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.
-- Chris Cornell

#House #Opera #Week

I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave,
-- Chris Cornell

#Thinking #Rocks #Perfect

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 someone else too.
-- Chris Cornell

#Thinking #Inspire #Important

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
-- Chris Cornell

#Believe #Night #Light

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.
-- Chris Cornell

#Differences #Personality #Leaving

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 always on the radio,
-- Chris Cornell

#Kids #Black #Rolling

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.
-- Chris Cornell

#Awkward #Ham #World

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by
-- Chris Cornell

#Lost #Left Behind #Behinds

I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota.
-- Chris Cornell

#Life #California #Feelings

I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.
-- Chris Cornell

#Thinking #People #Degrees

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

#Brother #Home #My Brother

I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there,
-- Chris Cornell

#Sound #Clubs #Made

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

#Song #Play #Singing

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.
-- Chris Cornell

#Keys #Quitting #Moments

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 a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.
-- Chris Cornell

#Song #Writing #Play

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

#Song #Coffee #Gone

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
-- Chris Cornell

#Real #People #Rooms

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
-- Chris Cornell

#Creative #Age #Process

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.
-- Chris Cornell

#People #Citizens #May

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.
-- Chris Cornell

#Song #Responsibility #People

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
-- Chris Cornell

#Song #Kids #Singing

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.
-- Chris Cornell

#Mistake #Littles #Nuance

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.
-- Chris Cornell

#Talkative