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Chris Cornell Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“No matter how happy you are, you can wake up one day without any specific thing occurring to bring you into a darker place, and you’ll just be in a darker place anyway.”
— Chris Cornell, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell on 'Superunknown,' Depression, Kurt Cobain
Tagged: Depression, Happiness
“If I’m writing music for music, kind of any idea I have is valid, and it’s about me and whatever I’m thinking or feeling.”
— Chris Cornell, Chris Cornell Final Interview
Tagged: Music, Songwriting
“We were not a band that would sit down and discuss a direction of an album before we started writing. We just focused on song after song, and, as we would arrange them and learn more, the album slowly took shape.”
— Chris Cornell, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell on 'Superunknown,' Depression, Kurt Cobain
Tagged: Soundgarden, album, Songwriting
“Brad Pitt don’t smoke shit hash. It’s like [the saying], 'Irish don’t drink shit Guinness.' Brad Pitt don’t smoke shit hash.”
— Chris Cornell, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: hashish, Shit, irish, Guinness Stout
“Time ain’t nothing if it ain’t fast taking everything that you ever had. And giving nothing in return but a cold bed in a quiet earth”
— Chris Cornell, Before We Disappear
Tagged: Life, The Point of Life, We All Die, Death
“My view of rock history now includes grunge as a major genre shift in the history of rock, the same as you would look at punk rock or the British Invasion. And we’re clearly pioneers of that genre and are recognized as being that.”
— Chris Cornell, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell on 'Superunknown,' Depression, Kurt Cobain
Tagged: Rock History, Grunge, punk rock, British Invasion
“I don’t think I was encouraged to be my own individual at all.”
— Chris Cornell, Chris Cornell's 2006 Interview on Audioslave, Addiction, and Reinventing Rock
Tagged: Individual, Growing Up
“My soul is stretching through the roots to memories of you.”
— Chris Cornell, The Promise
Tagged: Lost Love, Memory, Rembering You
“I know all your graces will someday flower in a sweet sunshower.”
— Chris Cornell, Sunshower- Great Expectations Soundtrack
Tagged: Potential, Growth, Coming Into Your Own
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