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Chris Cornell Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“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
“I never look back, ever. I’m always looking ahead, working on the next thing.”
— Chris Cornell, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell on 'Superunknown,' Depression, Kurt Cobain
Tagged: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, Encouraging
“I think that I always struggled with depression and isolation, so those could come out. I think that the mood of Seattle to me, and the way that I always interpreted that mood was something that was always a little bit introspective and dark.”
— Chris Cornell, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell on 'Superunknown,' Depression, Kurt Cobain
Tagged: Depression, Isolation, Seattle, introspective
“Yeah, it’s—you don’t know what’s going on. You don’t feel anything. Kicking it is so hard because all of a sudden your whole body comes to life, and you’ll have had all of these physical problems you didn’t realize you had because you don’t feel a damn thing. And so your knees will hurt. Your joints ache. Your brain hurts. It’s very depressing. It’s very hard to stay off. Getting off isn’t as hard as staying off.”
— Chris Cornell, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Heroin, Addiction, drug withdrawal
“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
“You can be a little bit lost in your own world and be doing an amazing thing and not realize it, or think something’s unbelievable and it’s garbage.”
— Chris Cornell, Salon's final Chris Cornell interview: "Living in the moment, feeling out what’s possible"
Tagged: Bubble, Songwriting, Creative Process
“In terms of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to me that seems like a gold watch and I’m not in any kind of hurry to have that.”
— Chris Cornell, Salon's final Chris Cornell interview: "Living in the moment, feeling out what’s possible"
Tagged: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
“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
“And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night, in the last remaining light.”
— Chris Cornell, Audioslave, The Last Remaining Light
Tagged: Making The Best of A Bad Situation, Quote of the Moment
“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
“I had a bad PCP [angel dust] experience when I was 14 and I got panic disorder. And of course, I wasn’t telling anyone the truth. It’s not like you go to your dad or your doctor and say, ‘Yeah, I smoked PCP and I’m having a bad time.’ So I became more or less agoraphobic because I’d have flashbacks.”
— Chris Cornell, Chris Cornell's 2006 Interview on Audioslave, Addiction, and Reinventing Rock
Tagged: PCP, Angel Dust, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, flashbacks
“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
“To be yourself is all that you can do.”
— Chris Cornell, Be Yourself
Tagged: Authenticity, Choose Yourself, Follow Your Self
“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
“I really had to come to the conclusion, the sort of humbling conclusion that, guess what, I'm no different than anybody else, I've got to sort of ask for help — not something I ever did, ever. And then part two of that is, like, accept it when it comes and, you know, believe what people tell me. And trusting in what I have been told, and then seeing that work.”
— Chris Cornell, Happy 50th Birthday Chris Cornell, Soundgarden kicks off tour this weekend
Tagged: Ask For Help
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