Nirvana Quotes
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I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.
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When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
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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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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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The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.
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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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Don't expect me to die for you.
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Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?
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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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There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.
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I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.
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Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.
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Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
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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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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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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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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 father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.
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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 don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.
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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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I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.
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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.