Nirvana Quotes
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I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
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When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
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Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.
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When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
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You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
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Rather be dead then cool.
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Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.
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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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I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy.
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'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
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America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.
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I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
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Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
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I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.
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When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.
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Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.
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I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.
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We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.