Nirvana Quotes
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I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.
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We can plant a house, we can build a tree.
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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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Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.
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I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
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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.
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I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.
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Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
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Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.
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I'm not like them, but I can pretend.
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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 some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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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 can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.
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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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CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.
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I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.
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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 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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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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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!