Top 100 Kurt Cobain Quotes
#1. Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.
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#2. 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.
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#3. I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually
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#5. I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
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#6. I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's beter to burn out than to fade away.
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#7. I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.
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#8. My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!
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#9. Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
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#10. I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
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#11. I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
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#12. I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals
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#13. I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
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#15. To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
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#16. I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
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#17. I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 116. To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred and valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discreditably.
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#20. I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word 'fuck' has many connotations as does the word 'art'.
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#21. I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.
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#22. The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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#23. 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.
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#24. My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had
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#25. Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.
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#26. I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.
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#28. I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy ...
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#29. 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.
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#30. I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
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#31. I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.
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#32. Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs!
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#33. I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice
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#34. I'll be the first to admit we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack
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#35. Married, Married, Married!
Buried!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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#36. I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
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#37. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
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#38. I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time..
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#39. I'm not mad. I'm in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.
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#40. The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came
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#41. There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.
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#43. 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.
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#44. By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not,
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#45. Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.
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#46. I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
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#47. I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
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#48. Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.
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#49. I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
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#50. I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.
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#51. I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.
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#54. Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.
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#56. 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.
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#58. You create attention to attract attention.
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#59. I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.
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#61. 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.
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#62. The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.
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#63. This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me.
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#64. It's my fault but the most violating thing I've felt this year is not the media exaggerations or the catchy gossip, but the rape of my personal thoughts.
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#65. 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.
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#66. I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
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#67. Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.
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#68. I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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#69. 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.
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#71. 109. Still never had any friends because I hate everyone for they were so phony.
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#72. I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
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#73. There is nothing I like more than pure underground music
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#74. No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.
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#76. 196. "Look on the bright side, suicide
Lost eyesight I'm on your side
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing
Lack of iron and/or sleeping
Protector of the kennel
Ecto-plasma, Ecto-skeletal
Obituary birthday
Your scent is still here in my place of recovery!" ~
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#77. I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
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#79. None of you will ever know what I am thinking.
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#80. Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.
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#82. I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
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#83. My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.
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#84. Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
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#85. That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.
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#86. No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer ...
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#87. I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.
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#89. 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.
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#90. After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.
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#91. There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.
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#92. Load up our guns
Bring your friends
It's fun to lose
and to pretend
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#93. People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.
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#94. 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.
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#95. I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
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#96. I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.
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#97. I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.
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#98. 91. Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.
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#99. Come as you are. As you were. As I want you to be.
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#100. 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.
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