Nirvana Quotes
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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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In the sun I feel as one.
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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 believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
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There is nothing I like more than pure underground music.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.
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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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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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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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When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
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There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.
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America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.
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My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.
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If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
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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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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
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Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.
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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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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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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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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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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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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.