Chris Cornell Quotes

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of show business.

The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.

PSY is a legend. I am just proud that a world star has risen from Korea and that a longtime friend was met with such astounding success.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history - James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy.

I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.

I know that Kelly Clarkson is going to continue to have an important career. And I believe it will be a lasting one.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

If you have to be a one-hit wonder, then 'San Francisco' is the one to have.

I probably could have toured off 'Trilogy' for the rest of my life. It definitely changed the culture. No one can do a trilogy again without thanking The Weeknd.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.