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

• When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Decision
  • Importance
  • Minor

• 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

• I never wanted to go for the cute boys. Why would you wanna have a boyfriend that's cuter than you?

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Boyfriend
  • Never Wanted
  • Cute Boys

• I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Today
  • Media
  • Theory

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

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music Is
  • Mainstream
  • Alternative