Soundgarden Quotes
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Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
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The first time I ever went to Hawaii, I was listening to island music, thinking, 'I could've been born here, and I'm pretty sure I would never play that.'
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Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.
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I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked.
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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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Kerrang! Magazine, March 1, 1997.
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I've always had a really difficult time with loss.
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It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.
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A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
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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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There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
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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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Rolling Stone: What was your headspace at the time of Superunknown? A lot of the lyrics are dark.
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The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeating those stories is really important. I also think it's important to always be exposing the warning signs for what was leading up to it. Those tend to always be the same.
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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 try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
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I never look back, ever. I'm always looking ahead, working on the next thing.
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I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.
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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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There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.
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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 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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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.
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I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.