Nirvana Quotes
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I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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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.
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I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
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In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.
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I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
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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.
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Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.
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I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
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To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.
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I won't eat anything green.
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I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.
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At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.
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I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
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I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.
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Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
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The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes.
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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
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Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.
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It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.
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If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
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When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.
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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.