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'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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You can't buy happiness.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana -
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
The word ‘grunge’ became a household term, and fashion runways were filled with flannel shirts and long underwear. Oh, how we laughed… Every now and then when I’m feeling a little nostalgic, I put on my ‘grunge tuxedo’ - flannel shirt, long shorts with long underwear underneath them, and a pair of Doc Martens - and dance around the house to Tad records.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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The world sucks, people are not true.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana