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• 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

  Song, Play, Singing

  FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Oct 23, 2016

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• What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Thinking, Starks

  "Maybe Sincerity Is The New Punk': Chris Cornell On Embracing Space". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2015.

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• I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

  Chris Cornell

  Careers, Long, Going Away

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• 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

  Done, Rock Star

  Source: www.spin.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Color, Trying

  "Exclusive: Chris Cornell Talks Writing Music for MACHINE GUN PREACHER, His Career, Soundgarden, Touring, Johnny Cash, Video Games and Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

  Chris Cornell

  Creative, Age, Process

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• It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.

  Chris Cornell

  School, Successful, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

  Chris Cornell

  Keys, Quitting, Moments

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• 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

  Two, People, Musician

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• If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

  Chris Cornell

  Stupid, Exercise, Artist

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• 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

  Thinking, Listening, Levels

  "'Maybe Sincerity Is The New Punk': Chris Cornell On Embracing Space". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2015.

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• Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

  Chris Cornell

  Awkward, Ham, World

  FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Apr 04, 2012

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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!'

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Jobs, Night

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• 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

  Song, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Writing, Play

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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.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, Inspire, Important

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• I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Coffee, Gone Away

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• 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

  Texas, Play, Dollars

  "Exclusive: Chris Cornell Talks Writing Music for MACHINE GUN PREACHER, His Career, Soundgarden, Touring, Johnny Cash, Video Games and Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, People, Degrees

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• I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

  Chris Cornell

  Real, People, Musician

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• If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

  Chris Cornell

  Race, Car, Musical

  "Chris Cornell throws down". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

  Chris Cornell

  Talkative

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• When you're having a conversation with someone who, despite his brilliant medical career, says he's going to produce the film, you think, "How's he gonna do this? Is he insane, or is he really going to pull this off? It might be both." It's really amazing to see someone do what he's done.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, Insane, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't ever want something that I didn't do because I was afraid of it or I didn't think I'd be good at it - within reason. Obviously I'm never going to be able to play the trumpet.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, Reason, Be Good

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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