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

• 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

• There's nothing that the road cannot heal

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Heal

• Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Powerful

• 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

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

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music Is
  • Mainstream
  • Alternative