Chris Cornell Quotes

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

There's been a progression in my sound.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

We built something very special with Gaslight, and we don't want to mess with that sound too much. But I've always wanted to do a record where I can put strings or organs or pianos or whatever on it.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

Music is constantly developing and changing.

I feel like it's a necessary part of musical development to go through that phase where you think that your favorite style of music is the only style of music, and I thought that for a while.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

I'm going to keep evolving and evolving and showing people that progression is key when it comes to music.

Music needs to move forward.

Compared to other bands that have gone off the deep end with their sound, you know, I'm very confident. I did not go off the deep end; it just improved.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.