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Chris Cornell
American
Musician
Born:
Jul 20
,
1964
Died:
May 18
,
2017
Me
Music
People
Think
Time
You
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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
Depression
Music
You
Be Kind
Sometimes
Listening
Space
Problems
Down
Though
Kind
Feel
Know
Liked
Also
Operate
Make
Comfortable
Because
Within
Always
How
Lot
Times
Person
May
Depressed
Depressing
Less
Even
Actually
And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.
Chris Cornell
Alone
You
Light
Will
Believe
Sun
Rise
Remaining
Coming
Greet
Stand
Last
Night
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
Life
Time
You
People
Getting Older
Will
Slow
Finish Line
Smell
Down
Older
Settle
Dilemmas
Kind
Pretty
Finish
Main
Idea
Period
Comfortable
Line
Lot
Getting
Maybe
Just
Stop
Common
Just Kind
Your
Roses
Who
Start
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
Positive
Time
Me
People
Sadness
Matter
Big
Before
Positive Way
Way
Seem
Faceless
Houston
Affect
Tragedy
Person
Dies
Just
Anyone
Whitney
Whitney Houston
Specifically
Street
I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.
Chris Cornell
Needs
People
Care
Focus
Think
Taking
Global
The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeating those stories is really important. I also think it's important to always be exposing the warning signs for what was leading up to it. Those tend to always be the same.
Chris Cornell
Genocide
Signs
Important
Think
Other
Those
Telling
Tend
Idea
Leading
Armenian
Armenian Genocide
Also
Always
Repeating
Up
Same
Any
Stories
Story
Really
Warning
Warning Signs
Exposing
There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.
Chris Cornell
You
Healing
People
Losing
Young
Believe
About
Something
Over
Particularly
Healing Process
Friends
Get
Where
Process
Young People
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
Attitude
Music
Beatles
People
Parents
Important
Style
Young
Think
Ramones
Elvis
Musical
Nirvana
Kind
Embraces
Mentality
Point
Absorb
Like
Terms
Became
Felt
Rock
Hip-Hop
Rock Music
Young People
Whole
Why
I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a musician, around the same time. The good news is, I was probably 17 when I knew that's what I was going to do with the rest of my life, no matter what that meant.
Chris Cornell
Life
Music
Time
Good
News
Age
Matter
Good News
Rest
My Life
Young
Musician
Kind
Knew
Terms
Around
Discovered
Same
Going
Blue-Collar
Just
Same Time
Young Age
Being
Just Kind
Really
Workforce
Meant
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
Time
People
Problem
Sometimes
Long
Closed
Other
Reclusive
Out
See
Pretty
About
Tendency
Long Periods
Had
Attempting
Step
Periods
Call
Around
Always
Go
Normal
Off
Trying
Hang
Just
Being
Anyone
Which
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
Good
You
Song
Walk
Angles
Cash
Johnny
Good Song
Johnny Cash
Perfectly
Look
Around
Lot
Different
Different Angles
Really
Rick
Illustrated
For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.
Chris Cornell
Myself
Good
Feeling
Nothing
About
Clear
Head
Feeling Good
Doing
Years
Productive
Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.
Chris Cornell
World
Care
Nurture
Living
Bad
Bad Thing
Take
Adult
Take Care
Feel
Come
Like
Protect
Always
Any
Children
Them
Might
Should
Thing
I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.
Chris Cornell
Music
Art
Myself
Matter
Band
Whatever
Took
Musician
Jobs
Scene
Could
Write
Supported
Underground
Got
Going
Even
Shows
Play
I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I'm not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he's one of the best.
Chris Cornell
Buy
Time
Best
Queen
Personality
Amazing
Think
Out
Would
Ability
Freddie Mercury
All-Time
Guy
Voice
Records
Through
He
Mercury
Come
Terms
Vulnerability
Rock
Still
His
Much
Really
Even
Technical
Technical Ability
I've always had a really difficult time with loss.
Chris Cornell
Time
Difficult
Had
Always
Loss
Really
Difficult Time
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
Long
Go Away
Way
Long Career
Had
Go
Continue
Want
Away
Career
Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.
Chris Cornell
Saying
Me
Simple
Band
High
Exactly
Super
Some
Guys
Like
Singer
Always
Sound
Soundgarden
Sings
Link
Sends
Whenever
Anyone
Really
Riff
Awful
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
Chris Cornell
Money
Made
Profit
Way
Easiest
Easiest Way
Out
Records
Had
Make
Years
Years Ago
Accounting
Department
Paid
Figured
Companies
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
Music
Song
Living
Ways
Miracle
Picasso
No-One
Covered
Infinite
Thing
Interpreted
Living Thing
Number
The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something you get almost bored with.
Chris Cornell
Time
You
Anger
Thought
Go Away
Sense
Would
Bored
Something
Never
Had
Almost
Over
Go
Get
Younger
Away
There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.
Chris Cornell
Time
You
Better
Result
Argument
Spend
Some
No Guarantee
More
Point
Songwriting
Concentrate
Existential
Going
Arts
Process
Produce
Certain
Aspects
Guarantee
Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them. And then, there's the example of really chipping away at something to create something great. I don't believe that one is more reliable than the other.
Chris Cornell
Great
Brilliant
Three
Example
Believe
Other
Reliable
Some
Minutes
Someone
Something
More
Could
Most
Because
Occurs
Than
Just
Happen
Them
Chipping
Might
Then
Create
Really
Away
Things
When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.
Chris Cornell
You
Class
People
Money
Care
Country
See
Pretty
Color
Inspiring
Take
Take Care
Make
How
How Much
How Much Money
Regardless
Much
I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.
Chris Cornell
Music
Great
People
Example
Seen
Live
Great Example
Easy
Outdoors
See
Never
Like
Concert
Cuba
Rock
Am
Very
Get
Going
Where
Place
Which
Interested
Succession
Who
Playing
'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.
Chris Cornell
Written
Any
Just
Fun
Album
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