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Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair are taking the simplest elements of Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam and melding them into one homogenous thing.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
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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Everything's different. You have to recognise the fact that I'm different. Time goes on, and you change. I'm coming into this as a different guy, that's probably the biggest thing.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.
Kim Thayil Soundgarden -
I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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I think my children are definitely musically inclined, and they show it, and they're exposed to a lot of it. And they're their own people, and I think easily they could do something musical, or they could do something in acting or film or other types of the arts, and I would fully support it.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
Kim Thayil Soundgarden -
It's good for me to be involved in different things.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
I'm a huge fan of film and always have been.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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I remember as a kid that I was always physically fit.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
There're the causes where people are like, "What can you do for us? You guys have success and stature; you can make money for us and at the same time present yourselves to the public as altruistic and civic-minded." So it's an exchange. I don't mind looking altruistic and civic-minded if we're actually being that way.
Kim Thayil Soundgarden -
'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
Guitar.com: he tone of Euphoria Morning is kind of melancholy.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
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.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
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.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden