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

• Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • God
  • Real

• The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Road
  • Travel
  • Forsake

• Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

  

  Brad Blanton
  • Truth
  • Honesty
  • Alternative

• The music business is like a big trap and that's why I never like to put both feet into it - I like to stand back and laugh at it, because if you jump into the mainstream completely then you are never going to escape. ---Songs like 'Firestarter' burst into the mainstream and bend it, twist it. Then we retreat back underground. That's the best way.

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
  • Mainstream
  • Retreat
  • Bend

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

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music Is
  • Mainstream
  • Alternative