Nirvana Quotes
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There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
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CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.
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At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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Be someone's light when they are hopeless.
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You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
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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.
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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 think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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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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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 wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.
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I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
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I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.
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You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.
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Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric or they hear the melody. But they don't really think about the environment in which it was recorded, which is so important. It's that thing that determines what the album sounds like.
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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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You create attention to attract attention.
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Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.
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Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.
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Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.
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I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.
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My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.