Kurt Cobain Quotes

I'm on my time with everyone.

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I have very bad posture.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

Don't expect me to die for you.

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Zits are beauty marks.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.

The worst crime is faking it.

I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

The world sucks, people are not true

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!

There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge).

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.

There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.

If you read, you'll judge.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.

We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

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.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.