Kurt Cobain Quotes

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

Kurt Cobain Nirvana

• Guitar
• Sing
• Rhythm

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• When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Job
  • Play
  • Thought

• Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Water
  • For Him

• We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Vices
  • Our
  • Ladder

• Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Worth
  • Saints

• I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Different
  • Way
  • Feeling

• We are all born mad. Some remain so.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Funny
  • Mad
  • Born

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • High
  • Know
  • Guys

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Admire

• Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Silence
  • Communication

• All the things that are in the past are in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • Things
  • In The Past

• We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Good
  • Society
  • Animal

• It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Learn

• I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Flying

• It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Job
  • Economic
  • Incentives

• I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Future

• I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Family
  • Kids

• I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Best

• The first person you have to resurrect is yourself

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Persons
  • Firsts

• It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Different
  • Together
  • Song

• Thom's a really great guitarist. He plays terrific rhythm, but he doesn't like to talk about it because he thinks he sounds like Brian May. He grew up with Queen. There were times when we've been competitive, but we've got this really nice situation where if one guitarist doesn't play in a song, we're okay with it. We can really chill out and enjoy it.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Enjoy
  • Rhythm
  • Guitarist

• We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

  

  Rob Halford Judas Priest
  • Fans
  • Kill
  • Sing

• I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Guitar
  • Sing
  • Rhythm