Kurt Cobain Nirvana Quotes

#1. I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.

Mark Salling

#2. And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

St. Vincent

#3. I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Matthew McConaughey

#4. Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

Amanda Palmer

#5. Nobody dies a virgin...life fucks us

Kurt Cobain

#6. Educating the heartis the critical complement to educating the mind.

Stephen R. Covey

#7. 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

#8. NURSE THORNTON DROPPED INTO THE LONG-TERM-CARE WARD A little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.

Joe Hill

#9. TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.

Doug Liman

#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.

Kurt Cobain

#11. 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

#12. The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.

Michael Moore

#13. Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn't feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.

Jenna Black

#14. You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.

Sarah Benson

#15. Humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.

Wm. Paul Young

#16. I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

Penn Jillette

#17. Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

John Steinbeck

#18. 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

#19. There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

Jack Kerouac

#20. Daniel's desk by the window is piled high with his drawings. The artwork is everything. He thinks of himself as the act of drawing. His body of work is his life, it is his continuity. The drawings show outwardly that inner place where he is still alive, a thread to connect him with the world.

J.J. Brown

#21. 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

#22. If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

Moby

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

Kurt Cobain

#24. I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy ...

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

Kurt Cobain

#27. Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

Ayn Rand

#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. (The code became known as the dot-and-dash alphabet, but the unmentioned space remained just as important; Morse code was not a binary language.*) That

James Gleick

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

Charles R. Cross

#31. Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall ... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

John Bonham

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

Kurt Cobain