Chris Cornell Quotes

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Car
  • Stress
  • Window

• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Enjoy
  • Would
  • Dinner

• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Myself

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • City
  • Child

• I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Babies
  • Gothic

• What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Family
  • Love
  • Mother

• Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Religion
  • Belief

• In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Dead
  • Head
  • Hungry

• I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • People
  • Different

• When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Different
  • Change
  • Style

• I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
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  • Kind
  • Film

• There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'

  

  Chelsea Handler

• You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Good
  • Different
  • Song