Chris Cornell Quotes

I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.

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• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Hope
  • Always

• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • People
  • Care
  • Foundation

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Best

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Love

• Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Focus
  • Needs
  • Even

• It's a sin to be tired.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Tired
  • Sin

• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Success

• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Easy

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Father
  • Day
  • Moment

• I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Future
  • Working
  • Camera

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Relationship
  • Perfection

• I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Job
  • Song

• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be 'Governor Bush.' I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

  

  George Carlin
  • Country
  • Political
  • Library

• I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

  

  Anthony Hopkins

• If things don't work out with one person, there's many other people to replace you with online.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • People
  • Work

• I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.

  

  Jason Mantzoukas
  • Time
  • Song
  • Faith

• Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Feeling