There’s a lot of music that I don’t like. — Chris Cornell

Chris Cornell. Thank you for the music. Thank you for the inspiration. Thank you for everything. — Corbin Reiff

Music is supposed to be inspired. — Chris Cornell

I don’t get in there and create a character. It’s more of a voice that I hear living inside the music. — Chris Cornell

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn’t know who was singing what song or who wrote what song. — Chris Cornell

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

The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow. — Chris Cornell

When we’ve toured with Skid Row and G N’ R, we probably turned a few people on to our music, but I get the feeling at one of those shows you might snag maybe 10 percent of the people out there. — Chris Cornell

That’s the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It’s a living thing. — Chris Cornell

I’m not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that’s more what entertainment and music should be. — Chris Cornell

Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I’m motivated to write by some amount of melancholy. — Chris Cornell

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked. — Chris Cornell

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

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

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

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

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week. — Chris Cornell

Definitely, when you get into something where bands are playing for 30,000 people, it’s not like the post–punk, U.S. independent scene. — Chris Cornell

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music. — Chris Cornell

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

When you’re young, playing drums is immediately satisfying ’cause whether or not you know how to play anything, the bottom line is that you’re pounding on something, so you’re happy about it. — Chris Cornell

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it’s all on you. No matter what happens, it’s entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity. — Chris Cornell

What do you think Jesus would twitter, ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone’ or ‘Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.’ — Chris Cornell

Friends of mine that are from here or that have spent time here have told me about Israel and how warm the people are and that I should someday come here. — Chris Cornell

I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early. — Chris Cornell

To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly. — Chris Cornell

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

At the end of the day it’s the fans who make you who you are. — Chris Cornell

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

What’s important is to get into shape and then not to have to worry about it. I don’t want to get on stage and not being able to do something. Not being physically fit doesn’t work for me. — Chris Cornell

We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space. — Chris Cornell

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

All you’ll be you are today. — Chris Cornell

I got a GED based on Catholic school seventh–grade education, really. I didn’t make it that far. — Chris Cornell

Be yourself is all that you can do. — Chris Cornell