Nirvana Quotes
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I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
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And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun.
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The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.
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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 don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.
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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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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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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
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Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
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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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All in all is all we are.
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I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
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Once you fall in love... It's different.
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I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.
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I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
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I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
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I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.
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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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Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.
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It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
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Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.
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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.
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What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.
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Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.