Nirvana Quotes
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Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
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There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.
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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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Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.
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I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.
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I think the producers or whoever's doing the show are tripping so hard. They must be on acid. They live in this, like, weird grass mound and there's this 'sun' in the sky with this little baby's face that's just, like, bleaaargh-aarghagh. It's just so totally insane. It's such an acid thing, man. For kids!
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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.
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I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.
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I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
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I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.
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When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.
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Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.
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We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.
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Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball.
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The world sucks, people are not true.
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And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia.
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I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.
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I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.
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My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
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The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.
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There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.