Kurt Cobain Quotes

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

“The worst crime is faking it.”

“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.”

“A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”

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

“Zits are beauty marks.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Don't expect me to die for you.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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