Nirvana Quotes
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CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.
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From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.
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My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
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There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.
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Rather be dead then cool.
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My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.
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Once you fall in love... It's different.
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If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.
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Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.
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I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.
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In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.
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Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.
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A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.
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When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.
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All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
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I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.
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No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.
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When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
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I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.
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If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.
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Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.