Nirvana Quotes
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Don't expect me to die for you.
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There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some 20 years ago. We don't know who and where, but it will f***ing happen again. All it takes is for that storm to break.
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A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: "Okay, you know what? I'm going to play music, and hopefully I'll make enough money that I can go back to school. Once I make enough money to put myself through school, that's what I'm going to do."
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I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.
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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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I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.
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Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.
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To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
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How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.
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I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.
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I hate myself, and I want to die.
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I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.
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I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.
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I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.
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My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.
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There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
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When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.
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I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.
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I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.
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Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'
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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.
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The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.