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.

Bryant Gumbel

Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here...

Bebe Moore Campbell

You live your life between your ears.

Cher

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

Bernhard Goetz

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

David Viscott

You are the only one who has to live your life.

David Sedaris

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

David Sedaris

I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

Demi Lovato

If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.

Brandon Lee

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

Arab Proverb

Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you

Tao Lin

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Ralph Bellamy

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

Ken Perkins

We don't have an opinion or more importantly a vote one way or another. We're not thrilled with it ... but it's essentially up to the analysts.

Maj. Pettai

We have very positive opinions from the Iraqis.

Melissa Merz

We have thousands of requests for opinions. We get through the opinions as quickly as we can.

Barbara Thompson

We are disappointed in the result and are studying the opinion carefully.

Lonnie Donegan

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.