Top 100 Cobain's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Cobain's

#1. Stephen Hawking: Brainier than Kurt Cobain's garage wall.

#2. His brother Blerg had a red ball with Kurt Cobain's face on it. Blerg kept looking back and forth between me and the ball like he was trying to imagine me without the choppy haircut.

Rick Riordan

#3. Hey, Sethy! If I could bottle and sell the way I'm feeling right now, I think I'd make enough money to buy Kurt Cobain's soul back from the devil
-Kaye

Charlie Fey

#4. I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!

Shakira

#5. I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

Frances Bean Cobain

#6. It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Kurt Cobain

#7. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#8. There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

Kurt Cobain

#9. Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

Courtney Love

#10. Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

Kurt Cobain

#11. I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as deeply as Kurt [Cobain] could.

Brett Morgen

#12. Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

Kurt Cobain

#13. Once you fall in love ... It's different.

Kurt Cobain

#14. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#15. Rock & roll is dying. It's frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

Kurt Cobain

#16. Alternative music is no longer alternative once it's in the mainstream.

Kurt Cobain

#17. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#18. Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

#20. 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

Kurt Cobain

#21. My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

Kurt Cobain

#22. You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

Brett Morgen

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

Kurt Cobain

#24. It's better to burn out than fade away.

Kurt Cobain

#25. I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

Dave Grohl

#26. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#27. When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

Kurt Cobain

#28. If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Kurt Cobain

#29. Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

Christina Westover

#30. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#31. The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite ...

Christina Westover

#32. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#33. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#34. It's creepy to see fan sites about me.

Frances Bean Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

#36. I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

Kurt Cobain

#37. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#38. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#39. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#40. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#41. That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

Kurt Cobain

#42. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#43. So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

Frances Bean Cobain

#44. def leppard lyric from Rock of Ages: It's better to burn out than fade away. This is not a Curt Cobain quote. He was quoting them !!!!!

Victoria Danann

#45. Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life.

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

#47. I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.

Chuck Palahniuk

#48. Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.

Kurt Cobain

#49. It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

#51. It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.

James Marsters

#52. The message was clear for baby boomers everywhere: Kurt Cobain was not merely some rock 'n' roll icon who couldn't handle drugs. In ways that were important to recognize, he was every parent's child.

Kurt St. Thomas

#53. I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

Kurt Cobain

#54. Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

Kurt Cobain

#55. My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

Kurt Cobain

#56. Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.

Brett Morgen

#57. They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

Kurt Cobain

#58. I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

Kurt Cobain

#59. I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

Kurt Cobain

#60. A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Kurt Cobain

#61. Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

Kurt Cobain

#62. If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Kurt Cobain

#63. Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. [Suicide note. ]

Kurt Cobain

#64. Twitter should ban my mother.

Frances Bean Cobain

#65. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#66. I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

Kurt Cobain

#67. I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Kurt Cobain

#68. I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's beter to burn out than to fade away.

Kurt Cobain

#69. Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

Ian Astbury

#70. I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Kurt Cobain

#71. Who needs action when you got words?

Kurt Cobain

#72. I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually

Kurt Cobain

#73. I was doing that [ a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

Michael Stipe

#74. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#75. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#76. I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.

Brett Morgen

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

Kurt Cobain

#78. I'm so happy 'cause today I've found my friends ... They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you.

Kurt Cobain

#79. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#80. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#81. I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

Pete Wentz

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

Kurt Cobain

#83. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#84. Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversation I've had in a long time. Words aren't as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.

Kurt Cobain

#85. [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

Courtney Love

#86. People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

Anthony DeCurtis

#87. To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Kurt Cobain

#88. The world sucks, people are not true

Kurt Cobain

#89. There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

Rosanna Arquette

#90. I'm worse at what I do best. And for this gift, I feel blessed.

Kurt Cobain

#91. I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Kurt Cobain

#92. I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.

Kurt Cobain