Chris Cornell quote: "I've seen a lot of Pearl Jam shows, and the only reaction I've ever seen is the audience being completely supportive and loving every moment."

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except...
CHRIS CORNELL

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 millio...
CHRIS CORNELL

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a...
CHRIS CORNELL

I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te...
CHRIS CORNELL

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really...
CHRIS CORNELL

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American ...
CHRIS CORNELL

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

There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
CHRIS CORNELL

When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I...
CHRIS CORNELL

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to song...
CHRIS CORNELL

One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the id...
CHRIS CORNELL

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down ...
CHRIS CORNELL

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last r...
CHRIS CORNELL

Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it'...
CHRIS CORNELL

If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the...
CHRIS CORNELL

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire B...
CHRIS CORNELL

I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, som...
CHRIS CORNELL

When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a...
CHRIS CORNELL

The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeat...
CHRIS CORNELL

To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.
CHRIS CORNELL

You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and re...
CHRIS CORNELL

My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, a...
CHRIS CORNELL

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of ...
CHRIS CORNELL

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when y...
CHRIS CORNELL

I've always had a really difficult time with loss.
CHRIS CORNELL

Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting ...
CHRIS CORNELL

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, c...
CHRIS CORNELL

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up a...
CHRIS CORNELL

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens...
CHRIS CORNELL

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect...
CHRIS CORNELL

When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life rea...
CHRIS CORNELL

Tom and Brad and Tim were huge fans of Soundgarden before I ever met them. The (Soundgarden) songs w...
CHRIS CORNELL

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks ...
CHRIS CORNELL

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of...
CHRIS CORNELL

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hen...
CHRIS CORNELL

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not t...
CHRIS CORNELL

I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulne...
CHRIS CORNELL

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking th...
CHRIS CORNELL

A Bullet is a man, from time to time he strays, I compare my life to this, To this I relate. And Im ...
CHRIS CORNELL

I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and...
CHRIS CORNELL

Most of the time, reading through treatments, it's like it could be any band, any song -- it doesn't...
CHRIS CORNELL

He just complained and complained the whole time we were there...But it didn't make any difference i...
CHRIS CORNELL

First and foremost, it was a lesson in propaganda. We were wound up, thinking we might be under surv...
CHRIS CORNELL

To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when ...
CHRIS CORNELL

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or &...
CHRIS CORNELL

The show was very emotional. We all have so much experience that we were trying to trick ourselves i...
CHRIS CORNELL

We want to have the next record filled up with songs that were performed for people before they were...
CHRIS CORNELL

(Getting back together) would take the lid off that and could possibly change what up to now, to me,...
CHRIS CORNELL

To answer your question, probably not, ... The fans, as well as ex-Soundgarden members, should feel ...
CHRIS CORNELL

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.
CHRIS CORNELL

Nick and Vicky were raised in a restaurant family and they have a very familial Greek way of doing t...
CHRIS CORNELL

Actually, that's not true,
CHRIS CORNELL

[You see, if the guys in Audioslave are going to take the time to make a video, they're not going to...
CHRIS CORNELL

We are your ambassadors in a sense, and it was an extremely successful trip.
CHRIS CORNELL

My head was much more in it. We were able to write very quickly, all four of us in the room, and to ...
CHRIS CORNELL

It wouldn't [have been] a plus, it would [have been] a minus. That story is that story, and the memb...
CHRIS CORNELL

It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've al...
CHRIS CORNELL

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but most...
CHRIS CORNELL

In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, 'We make great albums and write great...
CHRIS CORNELL

I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.
CHRIS CORNELL

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something ...
CHRIS CORNELL

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different wi...
CHRIS CORNELL

Probably before that record comes out we'll be out playing shows again. The idea is just to break do...
CHRIS CORNELL

I just thought, that's what you did -- you sang in a voice that was appropriate for the song. You wr...
CHRIS CORNELL

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a y...
CHRIS CORNELL

I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade...
CHRIS CORNELL

I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making...
CHRIS CORNELL

I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and roc...
CHRIS CORNELL

There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ende...
CHRIS CORNELL

Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in te...
CHRIS CORNELL

And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remain...
CHRIS CORNELL

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back ...
CHRIS CORNELL

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to...
CHRIS CORNELL

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have ...
CHRIS CORNELL

There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost ...
CHRIS CORNELL

I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charg...
CHRIS CORNELL

Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,&#...
CHRIS CORNELL

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it u...
CHRIS CORNELL

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot wi...
CHRIS CORNELL

Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair are taking the simplest elements of Soundgarden, Nirvana,...
CHRIS CORNELL

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important...
CHRIS CORNELL

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care o...
CHRIS CORNELL

I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I'm on stage....
CHRIS CORNELL

Being solo really lends itself to different interpretations - and everything is in the moment and on...
CHRIS CORNELL

I will say Soundgarden if Audioslave draws a blank stare. I'm not beyond that.
CHRIS CORNELL

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.
CHRIS CORNELL

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them b...
CHRIS CORNELL

Soundgarden was incredibly democratic, and I was really proud of that. I felt like we got along bett...
CHRIS CORNELL

You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.
CHRIS CORNELL

There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who...
CHRIS CORNELL

Soundgarden signing to a major, then Mother Love Bone, and seeing the same happen to Alice in Chains...
CHRIS CORNELL

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.
CHRIS CORNELL

When we've toured with Skid Row and G N' R, we probably turned a few people on to our music,...
CHRIS CORNELL

I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performa...
KATHARINE CORNELL

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious an...
KATHARINE CORNELL

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his fri...
KATHARINE CORNELL

When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to h...
KATHARINE CORNELL

The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every ...
KATHARINE CORNELL

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the fal...
EZRA CORNELL

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my ...
EZRA CORNELL

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriag...
EZRA CORNELL

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of ou...
EZRA CORNELL

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substa...
EZRA CORNELL

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
EZRA CORNELL

There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is ...
EZRA CORNELL

Stories are about endings,’ he’d said. ‘They don’t mean anything unless they come to an end.
PAUL CORNELL

Democrats have to strike where [Bush's] strength is, particularly at a time when he is bleeding.
CORNELL BELCHER

I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - curr...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Errors and strikeouts at the plate are what hurt us. But they're something we can fix.
WHIT CORNELL

I got another chestful of air in, tore loose with it. 'Somebody help me! You people standing around ...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art...
CORNELL CAPA

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood...
JOSEPH CORNELL

If you want to buy a quilt, you have to find someone who is willing to sell, and a lot of us aren't ...
BRENDA CORNELL

I shipped fabric home from France!
BRENDA CORNELL

When you get it just right, and you have the right fabric with the right pattern, it's really fulfil...
BRENDA CORNELL

An attachment grew up. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelatio...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Captain Midlands: "I met the real you once."
John (Lennon) the Skrull: "You're meeting the real...
PAUL CORNELL

John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide ho...
PAUL CORNELL

He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's an...
PAUL CORNELL

When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

There was nothing the matter out there. It was in here, with me.

I decided I'd better go ...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I oppose...
EZRA CORNELL

It was a little bit disappointing to give up a late goal like that. I think they came out and just s...
CORNELL GLEN

It always (feels bad) when you miss early chances. If I didn't score, the guys might be kicking my b...
CORNELL GLEN

He brings that kind of ability. I'm looking for big things out of him. Now, he's certainly got to co...
CORNELL FORD

He's got great pro potential, and he's going to be a lot bigger. If you can scoop up a kid like that...
CORNELL FORD

Every kid is different, and you're not going to hit it off with every single kid. They're going to p...
CORNELL FORD

Merlot is something I made up late one night. I don't want to get too caught up in the cuteness of t...
CORNELL BELCHER

A large segment of Americans are faith voters, who make sense of a great deal of their lives through...
CORNELL BELCHER

Here the first of the things that happened, happened. The first of the things important enough to no...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat t...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

I took a few dragging steps toward the locker-room door. 'You're doing something to me that I wouldn...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.
EZRA CORNELL

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only li...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

I don't have to. I just go for checkups. My heart doesn't seem to bother me at all.
EVERETT CORNELL

It was comforting to have the doctor and nurses. They were at my beck and call.
EVERETT CORNELL

I feel great. If I didn't have a bad leg, I'd be perfect.
EVERETT CORNELL

(The Skrull Beatles discuss their future.)

"So when this is all over, are we still gonna ...
PAUL CORNELL

It was a sort of car that seemed to have a faculty for motion with an absolute lack of any accompany...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Three o'clock in the morning.

The highway is empty, under a malignant moon. The oil dripp...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Then without any warning the car stopped. They were there.

"The ride's over," someone sai...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

And then, with a shock like high-voltage coursing through me, the phone beside me started pealing th...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Gosh, it's easy!' he marveled, open-mouthed. 'I never knew before how easy it is to kill anyone! Twe...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still....
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
EZRA CORNELL

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
EZRA CORNELL

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No...
EZRA CORNELL

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.
EZRA CORNELL

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowi...
EZRA CORNELL

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.
EZRA CORNELL

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.
EZRA CORNELL

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless wa...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometime...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the f...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Ricky started working really hard this week. He put in the extra effort before and after practice an...
WHIT CORNELL

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

You can't take highways during the apocalypse, because they'll be packed with panicky people.
J. CORNELL MICHEL

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a ...
J. CORNELL MICHEL

I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating...
J. CORNELL MICHEL

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, susp...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amou...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed t...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

You should never rely on public transportation during the apocalypse. Everyone should know that.
J. CORNELL MICHEL

I’m not a psychopath; my brain just works a little differently than that of the average person.
J. CORNELL MICHEL

I'm sure my unique brain tastes the same as a normal brain. Actually, mine might be slightly tastier...
J. CORNELL MICHEL

She’s probably good at compartmentalizing her feelings. Or maybe she just doesn’t have a soul.
J. CORNELL MICHEL

Everyone should be comfy during the apocalypse.
J. CORNELL MICHEL

I’m just trying to do my part to save the world.
J. CORNELL MICHEL

Zombies don't discriminate; they'll eat any brain they can sink their infected teeth into. I'm sure ...
J. CORNELL MICHEL

I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry ab...
J. CORNELL MICHEL

It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.
J. CORNELL MICHEL

They all call me "Excuse me," even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't a...
J. CORNELL MICHEL

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a ...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Franc...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write program...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

When the sun rises in the morning and sets in the night. When the moon comes into sight from the eas...
CHRIS

Love that never stoped. That grew with each tear drop, with each fight. With endless nights talking ...
CHRIS

Only true love will make it through the wicked world.
CHRIS

Curiosity killed the cat, then it came back eight more times to try it again.
CHRIS

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
CHRIS ROCK

Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Tr...
CHRIS RIDDELL

I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin...
CHRIS PINE

I had a beard way before it was fashionable.
CHRIS STAPLETON

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.
CHRIS JERICHO

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH

I've seen a lot of Pearl Jam shows, and the only reaction I've ever seen is the audience being completely supportive and loving every moment.

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I've seen a lot of Pearl Jam shows, and the only reaction I've ever seen is the audience being completely supportive and loving every moment.

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