Chris Cornell Quotes
If you sold a million records, the only way you could be disappointed is if the guy down the street sold seven million. But you've got to start dodging bullets once you've sold that many records, because everybody wants to kill you. We're not in that position. We can still be very successful and not have to worry about wearing bulletproof vests.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg
Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
Manju Warrier
I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
Forest Whitaker
To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
Barry McGuire
I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
Sam Smith
I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
S. E. Hinton
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
Victor Mitchell
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
Ed O'Brien
Radiohead
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
Quincy Jones
The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
Earl Weaver
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
H. R. McMaster
For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
Washed Out
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
Ma Jun
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
Lana Del Rey
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley
The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
Pat Paulsen
I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
Venus Williams
A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time.
Miranda Raison
I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?'
Jason Molina
Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.
Jeffrey Toobin
When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.
Van Morrison
That's how I would describe myself, persistent.
Brian Fallon
If you sold a million records, the only way you could be disappointed is if the guy down the street sold seven million. But you've got to start dodging bullets once you've sold that many records, because everybody wants to kill you. We're not in that position. We can still be very successful and not have to worry about wearing bulletproof vests.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden