Chris Cornell Quotes

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.'

All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

I think I've gradually learned to become more of a frontman than I was initially. I mean, when I first started, especially playing with Alter Bridge, you know, I really considered myself more a guitar player who sang.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

Having to sing makes me feel like a singer. And I don't view myself as a singer, but I guess I now am, because I am singing every day.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself... I thought, cringing.

I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who followed the band around. I love singing, I love performing, but it's never been this goal.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.

So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.