Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Chris Cornell

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

Chris Cornell

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

Chris Cornell

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

Chris Cornell

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

Chris Cornell

Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.

Chris Cornell

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

Chris Cornell

Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.

Chris Cornell

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

Albert Schweitzer

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

Albert Schweitzer

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Barry Switzer

Lovely? Well, thank you. That's kind of nice of you to say.

Bill Dunn

Last year we did 36 kinds of beer.

Japanese Proverbs

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Tom Adams

No other 1942 film would touch those kinds of numbers.

Joey Ramone

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

S. Walker

We had been doing a lot better but didn't have much to show for it. Getting this win just kind of validated that.

Kurt Vonnegut

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Mark Vonnegut

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

Marshall McLuhan

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

George McGovern

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

Terence McKenna

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

Linda Hamilton

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

Lady Gaga

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

Thomas Szasz

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure