Nirvana Quotes
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If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.
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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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I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
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I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
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There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.
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If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.
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When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
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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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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
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When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.
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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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Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.
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In the sun I feel as one.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
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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 think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.
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There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.
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I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.
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The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.