Nirvana Quotes
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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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The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
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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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I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
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She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.
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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.
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I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.
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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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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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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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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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Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.
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Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?
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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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But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
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Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.
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I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
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I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!
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I'm not like them, but I can pretend.
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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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And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
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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.
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Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.