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We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana -
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's...a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it was a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana -
And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana -
A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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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.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
There's nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I won't eat anything green.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana
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You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!
Kurt Cobain Nirvana