Chris Cornell Quotes

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

I was that kid who made his friends listen to the albums they didn't want to.

Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills.

That's what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you're holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they're anything.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks.

I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt... I love it.

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

I used to carry a bag of records down to my friend's house every Friday, and we'd sit down and play all the records I loved, and we'd look at the album covers.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.