Chris Cornell Quotes

I had a great run with Ratt.

I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there.

In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

Patrick and Joe were so young when we started the band. As slow as it was, with all the touring and crappy clubs we played, we still never had time to stop and reflect. When we took a break, it finally gave us time to reflect and grow up.

I mean, I wasn't fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would be interesting to me. People whose bands start out like that, when they break up it's always terrible.

Now, when you've been in the band for three years, you get used to the position, in a sense. I don't think about it every day like, 'Oh my God, I'm the singer of Nightwish!'

We've been playing together since we were 13, and from the age of 18, we've had a record contract. I think that we've been incredibly lucky, yeah. But we deserve it.

One thing I learned is that I don't want to be in an all-girl band again. Besides, most of my friends are guys, anyway.