Grunge Quotes

• What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Death
  • Interesting
  • Rock

• No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

  

  Chuck Eddy
  • Band
  • Hair
  • Grunge

• They're claiming that the grunge bands finally put Seattle on the map, but, like, what map? ...I mean, we had Jimi Hendrix. Heck, what more do we want?

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Grunge

• Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Rock
  • Grunge

• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Discipline

• I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

  

  David Cook
  • Music
  • Education
  • Grunge

• I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Seriously
  • Grunge

• I grew up in the grunge era. I've always resisted the idea of being part of a machine, wanting just to be an artist in my own right. But at some point, I just realized shutting things out took more energy than just letting it in.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Grunge

• The Melvins are grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Grunge

• Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Life
  • American
  • Reality

• In the early '90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Pretty
  • Kind
  • Pink

• Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Kids
  • Grunge

• I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Rock
  • Grunge

• Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Blame
  • Grunge
  • Indie

• I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

  

  Chloe Grace Moretz
  • Black
  • Hair
  • Grunge

• I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Interesting
  • inspirational
  • Mysterious

• There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Alternatives
  • Metals
  • Grunge

• As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • True
  • Three
  • Seattle

• I grew up on, and kind of came of age, during the grunge movement and was introduced to Neil Young and Bob Dylan and grew up on that path.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Up
  • Age
  • Path

• I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Band
  • Popular
  • Grunge

• In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Band

• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Fashion
  • Grunge

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