Nirvana Quotes
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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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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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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
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If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.
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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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There is nothing I like more than pure underground music.
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One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.
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If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.
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There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.
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A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.
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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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When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
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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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There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge).
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You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.
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That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.
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Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?
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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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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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A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
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My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.