Chris Cornell Quotes
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I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.
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'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.
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Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.
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Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music scene. So we had that factor of being a new discovery.
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Guitar.com: he tone of Euphoria Morning is kind of melancholy.
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I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.
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There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.
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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
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My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.
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Chris Cornell: A Changed Man. Guitar.com (29 September 1999).
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I've never been big into self-promotion. It's awkward for me. Just seeing my name on a T-shirt freaks me out.
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The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
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That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.
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I've seen a lot of Pearl Jam shows, and the only reaction I've ever seen is the audience being completely supportive and loving every moment.
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Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.
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Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.
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I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially.