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I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.

~Chris Cornell

Topics: Album Alice Bone Chains Fad Feeling Hearing Just Like Love Moment More Mother Remember Songs Than I Remember

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To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.

~Chris Cornell

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Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,' it's always some super simple sludge riff with a singer that sings high and screechy. And it's really awful.

~Chris Cornell

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They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always interesting to see what they react to in whatever I'm working on at the moment. And they don't even want to discuss why. That's a lesson to remember: My son doesn't care about why.

~Chris Cornell

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When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.

~Chris Cornell

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You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.

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When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

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When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band. Audioslave was great.

~Chris Cornell

Topics: Band Different Four Great Guys Makes Room Songs Writing You

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Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.

~Chris Cornell

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A band that makes records and tours is also a business. That's usually where a lot of disagreements come. It's four guys who are musicians and don't really know much about business, but are very passionate and have very specific ideas.

~Chris Cornell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: July 20th, 1964

Died: May 18th, 2017

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