Christopher John Cornell was an American singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, and for his numerous solo works and soundtrack contributions. Powerful collection of inspirational profoundly Chris Cornell quotes and lyrics will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Famous Chris Cornell Quotes
And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. Chris Cornell
And if you don’t believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
The words you say never live up to the words in your head. Chris Cornell
Hip hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn’t their parents. I think hip hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality. Chris Cornell
Be yourself is all that you can do. Chris Cornell
Music is supposed to be inspired. Chris Cornell
I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems. Chris Cornell
An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
There’s something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it’s not something that you get over. I don’t believe there’s a healing process. Chris Cornell
People don’t realize how much fun it is to be depressed. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
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
There wasn’t a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit. Chris Cornell
There’s something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it’s not something that you get over. I don’t believe there’s a healing process. Chris Cornell
One of the main dilemmas that’s pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there’s a finish line and that maybe there’s a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life. Chris Cornell
Everybody is influenced by someone. Chris Cornell
I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever. Chris Cornell
She gives the night its dreams. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
I play Texas Hold’em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal. Chris Cornell
I don’t think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave.Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
I would hope that the future would have an international community that’s not just bent on commerce, but that’s focused on refugees, of all kinds and from all places. We don’t know that won’t happen in the U.S. someday. It literally could be a crisis from climate change, or anything. I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
I don’t listen to Beyonce or Jennifer Hudson records. Chris Cornell
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
It’s great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you. Chris Cornell
I don’t care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don’t feel like I don’t know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me. Chris Cornell
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people’s attention for two hours. Chris Cornell
At the end of the day it’s the fans who make you who you are. Chris Cornell
I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much. Chris Cornell
What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
At the end of the day it’s the fans who make you who you are.Chris Cornell
They always say that the entertainment and restaurant industries are the only businesses that don’t sink during a depression or a recession. I’ve done both, and I recommend to anyone who wants to be a rock star, if that doesn’t pan out, become a cook. Chris Cornell
I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I’m not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he’s one of the best. Chris Cornell
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
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
I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don’t care about it. And if I don’t care about it, then I don’t think anyone listening to it will, either. Chris Cornell
What’s important is to get into shape and then not to have to worry about it. I don’t want to get on stage and not being able to do something. Not being physically fit doesn’t work for me. Chris Cornell
If you are trying to think ahead musically, it is not going to help you. It is better to ignore what is happening melodically and just look at the little dots coming at you and the corresponding colors and try to do it at the right time. Chris Cornell
If you’re an American kid, you can’t help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they’re always on the radio. Chris Cornell
It’s great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you. Chris Cornell
In spite of my lack of education, I didn’t lack direction. Chris Cornell
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people’s attention for two hours. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
When that much time goes by, you’re really listening to your old music differently. At the time it’s written, it was the beginning of our career and with every song we’re thinking, This is what’s creating us. Now, nothing is creating us. We’re well created. We’re there. It becomes just pure pleasure and you become sort of an archeologist of your own music. You don’t judge it, because what’s the point? It’s a 30 year old song. It just becomes fun. Chris Cornell
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. Chris Cornell
I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures. Chris Cornell
