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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana
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The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana -
My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
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.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I will get stoned and worship Satan.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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You can't buy happiness.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana