Top 100 Quotes About Kurt Cobain
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually
Kurt Cobain
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.
Ian Astbury
#10. I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's beter to burn out than to fade away.
Kurt Cobain
#11. I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.
Kurt Cobain
#12. 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
#13. 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.
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#14. 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
#15. If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
Kurt Cobain
#16. Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.
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#17. A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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#18. I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.
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#19. 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
#20. They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.
Kurt Cobain
#21. 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
#22. My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!
Kurt Cobain
#23. Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.
Kurt Cobain
#24. 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.
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#26. I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
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#27. I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.
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#28. I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
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#29. I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't
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#30. I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.
Kurt Cobain
#31. I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals
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#32. 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
#33. I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt Cobain
#34. I'm worse at what I do best. And for this gift, I feel blessed.
Kurt Cobain
#35. I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy.
Kurt Cobain
#37. To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
Kurt Cobain
#38. People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.
Anthony DeCurtis
#39. [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
#40. 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
#41. Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
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#42. I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.
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#43. I like Kurt Cobain. [He] is like my dream boyfriend.
Miley Cyrus
#44. 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.
Kurt Cobain
#45. 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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#46. I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.
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#47. My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
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#48. He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.
Charles R. Cross
#49. Forever in debt to your priceless advice.
Kurt Cobain
#51. I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
Kurt Cobain
#52. I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.
Christopher Owens
#53. I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.
Kurt Cobain
#54. 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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#55. If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.
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#56. People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.
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#58. I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style they had - whether it was pin-up or whatever - it just worked for them, and it looked effortless even though it was fabulous. I like anything that just looks effortless.
Behati Prinsloo
#59. 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
#60. I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
Kurt Cobain
#61. 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
#62. I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.
Stella Vine
#63. I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.
Kurt Cobain
#64. I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
Kurt Cobain
#65. It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.
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#66. Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic.
Kurt Cobain
#67. I looked more like Kurt Cobain than ever, except I doubt Cobain ever wore a shirt that read: WIGGLES ROCK & ROLL PRESCHOOL TOUR! The really disturbing thing was that they made shirts like that in my size.
Rick Riordan
#68. Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.
Kurt Cobain
#69. 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.
Kurt Cobain
#70. I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
Taylor Momsen
#71. 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.
Kurt Cobain
#72. If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love)
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#73. One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.
Brett Morgen
#74. 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'.
Kurt Cobain
#75. 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
#77. We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.
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.
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#80. I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.
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#81. I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.
King Tuff
#82. 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
#83. 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.
Kurt Cobain
#84. Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up.
Kurt Cobain
#85. I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
Billy Corgan
#86. 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
#87. The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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#88. If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
Kurt Cobain
#89. When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.
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#90. If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Kurt Cobain
#91. 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.
Kurt Cobain
#92. We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
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#94. My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had
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#95. You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
Bradford Cox
#96. America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.
Kurt Cobain
#97. Stephen Hawking: Brainier than Kurt Cobain's garage wall.
Frankie Boyle
#98. I really miss being able to blend in with people.
Kurt Cobain
#99. Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.
Kurt Cobain
#100. 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.
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