Nirvana Quotes
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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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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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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.
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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
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When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.
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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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We just do what we always do. We play shows and go home and rest and then play more shows.
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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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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've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.
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I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
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In the sun I feel as one.
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It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do f___ing Glee. And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we’re not, like, begging to be on his f___ing show… f___ that guy for thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee.
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John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
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There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
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Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.
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The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.
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Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.
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Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.
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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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It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
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When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.
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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.