Kurt Cobain Music Quotes

#1. Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

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

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

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#4. Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.

James Merrill

#5. I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

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#6. But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect.

Anthony Trollope

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

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#8. There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

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#9. He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn't enough.

Antony John

#10. 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.

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

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

Christina Westover

#16. Truly enlightened people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment. So

Robin S. Sharma

#17. Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

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#18. 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

#19. Why do people want to know what I think? I like to play the game. I don't like to give opinions.

Manny Ramirez

#20. Thinking along these lines, I have felt that in trying to enforce in one's life the central teaching of the Gita, one is bound to follow Truth and ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#22. 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.

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#23. If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

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#24. I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in developing your very own personal style.

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#25. He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Charles R. Cross

#26. Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.

Mordechai Vanunu

#27. The Socially Accessible introvert looks like an extrovert on the outside and sees extroversion as a bar that he or she can never quite reach. These individuals are often very successful in social arenas, but fault themselves for not having more fun.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#28. 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

#29. I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

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#30. Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic.

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#31. 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.

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#32. If your gut is telling you something is askew, chances are it is.

Janet Pucino

#33. 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.

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#34. I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

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#35. What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

Tyler Perry

#36. 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.

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#37. I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

Taylor Swift

#38. Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.

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

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