Chris Cornell Quotes
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Maybe Kurt Cobain meant it to mention suicide in his lyrics; maybe he didn't. We're never going to know. When Andy Wood died, there were tons of lyrics that he wrote that sort of alluded to, well, it's possible that it's going to happen. It's not likely I'm going to kill myself, but those lyrics are still there.
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And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
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I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.
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I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...
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I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.
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The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.
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Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.
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I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.
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Everybody is influenced by someone.
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People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.
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She gives the night its dreams.
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I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I'm on stage. I also am into isometric workouts.
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I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.
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I never look back, ever. I'm always looking ahead, working on the next thing.
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I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.
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Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
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And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by
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I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.
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I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of getting my music to people's ears to hear. Over the years, I've just become more tolerant of that.
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I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
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Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.
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Rolling Stone: What was your headspace at the time of Superunknown? A lot of the lyrics are dark.
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I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.
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Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.