Nirvana Quotes
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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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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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There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.
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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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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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There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
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People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.
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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.
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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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You create attention to attract attention.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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In the sun I feel as one.
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My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
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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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Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.
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There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.
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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.