Chris Cornell Quotes

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.

An average show is two hours. And that's usually right up to the curfew or the union triple time. I always feel like I could have played a little longer or something, but it's hard for me to pay attention to anything for longer than that.

I try to talk as less as possible and maximise the music part. I have tons of songs on my set list and I want to sing all of them, or as much as possible. If I talk more it'll eat into the time allotted for me.

It's awesome to play 1 1/2 -hour shows because it's so much fun, and we enjoy every single minute of it.

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They may be watching what's on the screen. But when the songs are playing in their mind's eye, they're actually watching a movie.

I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

We do pretty much the same set list every night, and the show's down to certain cues because we have video and all this production and lights and everything going on.

I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.

I'm not a comedian who wants to spend far too long on stage.

It's weird being a DJ and you have a playlist of your own songs that you could hold it down for an hour.

There's not many crazy guitar instrumentalists out there that put on a crazy monster show.

I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.

We never do the same set twice... We play for at least two and a half hours, sometimes longer, so there's a lot of songs from all the records. And we know there's a stable we as fans would want to hear, so we always give them, then we change up a bunch of songs and throw in a couple new ones.

Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

I sign up whatever live shows I get simply because every gig is a chance to reach out directly to the audience. When it comes to gigs, I try mixing personal picks with what the audience demands.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

I enjoy singing with a band playing behind me.

When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.

For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.