Kurt Cobain Quotes

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“If you read, you'll judge.”

“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'.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The world sucks, people are not true”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“The sun is gone, but I have a light.”