Kurt Cobain Quotes
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I got a call from Buddy Arnolds, who started the program, and he said, ‘Kurt Cobain is at this hospital, and I just visited him. He would like to meet you,’ he wasn’t aware of my music… He was aware of my being a world-class junkie. He wanted to meet the junkie that got clean.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.
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Kurt Cobain, from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing...
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Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.
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I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.
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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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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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[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.
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And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.
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Look, you see those groups talking about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.
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Kurt Cobain was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney Love I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he liked that she was taking the attention off of him.
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I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.
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I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt Cobain could.
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You have Kurt Cobain, and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.
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Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt Cobain , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.
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One thing about Kurt Cobain is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.