Nirvana Quotes
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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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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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Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
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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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I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.
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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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It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.
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It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.
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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!
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We can plant a house, we can build a tree.
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After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.
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A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.
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I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.
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I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.
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Who needs action when you got words?
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CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.
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I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually.
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I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.
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Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
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I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy.
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People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.
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When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.