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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I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.
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I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
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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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We can plant a house, we can build a tree.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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I don't want to be a spokesperson.
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We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.
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Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.
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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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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
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Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles.
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I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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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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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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I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.
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We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.
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I’m worse at what I do best.
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Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].
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I'm on my time with everyone.