Nirvana Quotes
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Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.
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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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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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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 sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
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My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.
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Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
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My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!
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Oh well, whatever, nevermind.
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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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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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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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How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
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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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A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.
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Believe everything you read.
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I think musicians like me are drawn to those older desks, not just because they're legend and lore but also because they do something really specific that is hard to emulate or re-create digitally.
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I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.
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If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!
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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.