Kurt Cobain Quotes

I’m worse at what I do best.

Here we are now, entertain us.

all i want...is mac and cheese

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio

The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned

I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

The future of rock belongs to women.

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

You create attention to attract attention.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend

If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.

I hate myself, and I want to die

I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.