Kurt Cobain Quotes

“Forever in debt to your priceless advice.”

“I have very bad posture.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I'm on my time with everyone.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Believe everything you read”

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

“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.”

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

“You can't buy happiness”

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

“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.”

“She eyes me like a pisces.”

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

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

“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.”

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