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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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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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
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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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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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I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...
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People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't.
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Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.
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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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Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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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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With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
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I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
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I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
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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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For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.
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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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When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.
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There's something about heartbreak that makes for great music, but the same could be said for Jägermeister. Hangovers make for great music, too.
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I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.
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There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.