Chris Cornell Quotes

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

There will never be another Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock and roll singers.

From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

I always enjoyed singing but I was never convinced that I had a big voice like that, that was distinctive, I just thought I can sing in the choir.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

I believe I can sing anything.

AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

I was a born singer.

To this day, there's nobody, nobody that sounds like Janice Joplin.

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I learned it from videos.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.