Chris Cornell Quotes
I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.
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Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.
