Kurt Cobain Quotes
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle.
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I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
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The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.
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Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's...a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it was a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.
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I won't eat anything green.
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I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.
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I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
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The world sucks, people are not true.
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
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I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
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I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
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Believe everything you read.
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I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
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People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.
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Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?
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A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.
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I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
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I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.
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I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
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I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.
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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.