223 Quotes by Chris Cornell

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

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

Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.

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.

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.

Everybody is influenced by someone.

I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there,

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.

My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.