Kurt Cobain Quotes

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came.

I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

None of you will ever know what I am thinking.

I won't eat anything green.

I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.

What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

Who needs action when you got words?

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.

Rather be dead than cool.

In the sun I feel as one.

I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

Once you fall in love... It's different.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

She eyes me like a pisces.

You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

You can't buy happiness

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

Believe everything you read

When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.