What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is. Chris Cornell More Quotes by Chris Cornell More Quotes From Chris Cornell I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport. Chris Cornell mountain-biking mountain sports 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. Chris Cornell leaving differences personality I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work. Chris Cornell rocks guitar letting-go 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 rolling black kids 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 you time life people When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside. Chris Cornell you parent simple life 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 you be-kind music depression There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me. Chris Cornell me time positive people There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden. Chris Cornell soundgarden animosity breakup I never look back, ever. I'm always looking ahead, working on the next thing. Chris Cornell looking never back look I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with. Chris Cornell day music work thinking 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 sit think candle reason When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning. Chris Cornell meaning words you guitar 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 style music attitude people When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely. Chris Cornell never see you humanity It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone. Chris Cornell step time long people You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly. Chris Cornell walk good you song A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with. Chris Cornell you high-school people school For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive. Chris Cornell nothing feeling good myself To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with. Chris Cornell look you music people
