Kurt Cobain Quotes

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

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• Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Sadness
  • Left
  • Unheard

• Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Wrong

• My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.

  

  William Cowper
  • Dog
  • Friendship

• This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Generation

• Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Opportunity
  • Inspiration
  • Genius

• Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Pain
  • Punk Rock
  • Musical Freedom

• The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Crazy
  • Dating
  • Cases

• Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Society
  • Useless
  • Abysses

• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  

  Quintilian
  • Like
  • Dreams
  • Hopes

• Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Country
  • War
  • Together

• Some people put their work on the internet and check every day how many people look, how many people made contact, but I don't have internet, I don't have a hand-phone, I don't have fax, I don't have email. I just have old-fashioned telephone and letters.

  

  Erro
  • Hands
  • Internet
  • Contact

• I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Music
  • Business
  • Way

• Music is the melody whose text is the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Text
  • Melody
  • Music Is

• Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music Is
  • Mainstream
  • Alternative