Nirvana Quotes
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You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.
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I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.
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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 don't care what you think unless it is about me.
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There's nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.
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In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.
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Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.
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Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
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I won't eat anything green.
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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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For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.
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I'm not like them, but I can pretend.
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There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.
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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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I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
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A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
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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 called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.
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I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
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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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At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
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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.