Chris Cornell Quotes

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

Chris Cornell Soundgarden

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• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

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• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

  

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• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

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• Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.

  

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• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

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• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

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• You never know how much time you got.

  

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• I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

  

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• I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

  

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• I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.

  

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• The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.

  

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• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

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• Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

  

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• When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

  

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• As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

  

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• You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

  

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• You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

  

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• There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

  

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• In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

  

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• We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.

  

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• There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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  • Thinking