Soundgarden Quotes
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An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.
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When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.
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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.
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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.
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At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.
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'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
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'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.
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It's good for me to be involved in different things.
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I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
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Audioslave was something that I felt had become a career decision. It became three albums over a period of years touring with a specific group of people.
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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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You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.
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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!'
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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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I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh-grade education, really. I didn't make it that far.
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Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.
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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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What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'
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Guitar.com: he tone of Euphoria Morning is kind of melancholy.
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I remember as a kid that I was always physically fit.
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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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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.
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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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Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.