Nirvana Quotes
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They (Extreme) surround themselves with these professional, dickhead, commercial rock and roll guys...when they show up at an airport, their manager runs ahead of them and yells at the people greeting them, 'No video! We want a path straight to the van! We don't want any pictures taken!' Y'know, I'm like, 'So what?'
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
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I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it.
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Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.
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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
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I have very bad posture.
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I will get stoned and worship Satan.
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If it's illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail.
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When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.
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After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.
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If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
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I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.
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I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
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Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.
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I can’t comment on Soundgarden because I know them personally and I really like them a lot, but I have strong feelings towards Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains and bands like that. They’re obviously just corporate puppets that are just trying to jump on the alternative bandwagon - and we are being lumped into that category.
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Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.
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This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.
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Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
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I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.
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A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
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There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.
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I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.
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I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
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Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle.