Top 100 Quotes About Kurt Cobain: Famous Quotes & Sayings 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. 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

#3. 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

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

Ian Astbury

#5. 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

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

Anthony DeCurtis

#7. [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

#8. I like Kurt Cobain. [He] is like my dream boyfriend.

Miley Cyrus

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.

Stella Vine

#13. 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

#14. I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

Taylor Momsen

#15. 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

#16. I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.

King Tuff

#17. 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

#18. I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

Billy Corgan

#19. 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

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

Frankie Boyle

#21. 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

#22. 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!

Kurt Cobain

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

Brett Morgen

#24. I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me,

Justin Bieber

#25. 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

#26. You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote.

Seth Avett

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than ... is where it all comes from.

Zachary Cole Smith

#30. I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.

Chad Kroeger

#31. Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing

Brett Morgen

#32. I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

Layne Staley

#33. Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he liked that she was taking the attention off of him.

Brett Morgen

#34. I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Christina Westover

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

Krist Novoselic

#39. Kurt Cobain, when he did his videos, you look into his eyes and he couldn't even face the camera; he was in pain and I'm angry about Kurt. This guy didn't have to die.

Steven Tyler

#40. At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green - and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme.

Tove Lo

#41. I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

Bono

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. I wish Kurt Cobain didn't die. I really don't know where he'd be right now, I don't know what he'd be like. I just like to fantasize that he would like our band and he would know what we were up to.

Theresa Wayman

#45. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'

Jeff Ament

#46. Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just
he was a worthless shred of human debris ...

Rush Limbaugh

#47. KURT DANIELSON: [Kurt Cobain] was the most gifted and cursed. And also the most ferocious, innocent, and nicest. A bundle of extremes and opposites.

Greg Prato

#48. How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?

Jeff Ross

#49. I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone.

Michael Stipe

#50. Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

Questlove

#51. I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen.

Michael Stipe

#52. I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

Patti Smith

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

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

Kurt Cobain

#60. Who needs action when you got words?

Kurt Cobain

#61. 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

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

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

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

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

#71. 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

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

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

#75. 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

#76. Rather be dead than cool.

Kurt Cobain

#77. I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Kurt Cobain

#78. I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

Kurt Cobain

#79. I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

Kurt Cobain

#80. I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't

Kurt Cobain

#81. I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

Kurt Cobain

#82. I'm all for stage diving, but just don't step on my pedals

Kurt Cobain

#83. 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

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

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

#87. The world sucks, people are not true

Kurt Cobain

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

Kurt Cobain

#89. 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

#90. 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.

Kurt Cobain

#91. I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.

Kurt Cobain

#92. 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

#93. 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.

Kurt Cobain