Nirvana Quotes
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I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.
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There's nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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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.
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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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The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.
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Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.
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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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The world sucks, people are not true.
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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
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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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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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Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
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I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.
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Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
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You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.
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She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.
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I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.
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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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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.