Chris Cornell Quotes

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.

I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I was listening to a lot of dude bands - Guns N' Roses and Metallica, all that stuff.

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

I grew up with British rock.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

Spittin' blood, smokin' guitars, fire everywhere - Kiss is where I started.

There's very few rock & roll bands. There's rock bands, there's sort of metal bands, there's whatever, but there's no rock & roll bands - there's the Stones and us.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.

I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.

My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.

Where I lived, on Long Island, you had the radio stations that always played Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and AC/DC and all that. I grew up on all that stuff.

I've always appreciated more guitar-driven and, in general, just rock music; that's what I listen to. I don't really listen to electronic music.

I love Eighties rock.

I listen to older music like AC/DC.

AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.

All of my favorite music was probably in the rock category.

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!