Nirvana Quotes
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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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I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.
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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
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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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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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Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
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My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had.
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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.
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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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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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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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The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.
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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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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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I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
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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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She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.
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I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
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If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!