Nirvana Quotes
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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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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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I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.
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I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.
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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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Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.
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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
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There is nothing I like more than pure underground music.
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I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.
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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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Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.
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I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...
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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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You create attention to attract attention.
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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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All in all is all we are.
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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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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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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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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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My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.
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In the sun I feel as one.
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I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.