Kurt Cobain Quotes:

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

Topics: Dream, Simple Life, Want, Non Conformity

I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

Topics: Teenage, Independent, Bridges, Street Life, So Boring

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Topics: Music, Truth, Challenges

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.

Topics: Cute, Girl, People, Cool People

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

Topics: Karma, Mean, Poop, Mean Person, Mean People

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Topics: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Individuality, Singer-songwriters, Just Be Yourself

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

Topics: Feelings, Okay, Fishes

You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.

Topics: Validation, People, Advice, Being Happy With Yourself, Happy With Yourself

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ***** in jail!

Topics: Jail, Rocks, Rock And Roll

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

Topics: Teaching, Men, Trying

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

Topics: Inspirational, Gay, Lgbt

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.

Topics: Stars, Rocks, Mail, Outside World

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Topics: Gay, Trying, Becoming, Gay Friend

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Topics: Light, Gone, Sun

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

Topics: Attitude, Different, Heavy Metal, Different Attitude

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

Topics: Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

Believe everything you read

Topics: Believe, Blind Faith, Blind Trust

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

Topics: Rap, Rocks, Punk, Rap Music, Punk Rock

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

Topics: Thinking, People, Guy

The worst crime is faking it.

Topics: Music, Fake People, Jazz, Faking It

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

Topics: Stupidity, Teens, Want

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Topics: Guitar, Talking, Play

The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.

Topics: Fun, Thinking, Dumb

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

Topics: Falling In Love, Fall, Different

I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported.

Topics: Needs, Inspired, Be Inspired

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.

Topics: Art, Real, Gay, Getting Laid, Macho

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

Topics: Beautiful, Rocks, Faces

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.

Topics: Morning, Bird, Speak

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.

Topics: People, Labels, Firsts

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

Topics: Thinking, Narcissistic, Care, Narcissist

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

Topics: Complaining, Truthful

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

Topics: Strong, Opinion, Truthful, Strong Opinions

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

Topics: Gun, Drug

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

Topics: Divorce, Childhood, Fatherhood, Good Childhood

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

Topics: Friendship, Needs, Firsts

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.

Topics: Pain, Mean, Rocks, Pain Suffering, Punk Music

Rather be dead than cool.

Topics: Hipster, Truthful

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Topics: Stars, Rocks, Might

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.

Topics: Rocks, Rock And Roll, Knowing

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Topics: Reality, Answers, Opinion

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

Topics: Racist, Homophobes, Bother

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

Topics: Music, Complaining, Want, Schizophrenic

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.

Topics: Courage, Honesty, Fear, Counterculture, Disgusted

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

Topics: Men, Average, Problem, Macho, Macho Man

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Topics: Mother, Artist, Age

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

source: - "Revisiting Kurt Cobain's Hometown Roots, 20 Years After His Death" by Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 3, 2014.

Topics: Personality, Use, Pieces, Bits And Pieces

The world sucks, people are not true

Topics: People, World

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

Topics: Oh Well, Wells, Nevermind

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Topics: Pain, Two, Irritation, Scoliosis

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Topics: Pixies, Band, Firsts

I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.

Topics: Thinking, Truthful, Boring

I'm not like them But I can pretend

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

Topics: Mean, Needs, Want

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Topics: Funny, Life, Halloween

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

Topics: Entertainment, Music Is, Famous Musician

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.

Topics: Passion, Mean, Rocks, Sloppy

It's better to burn out than fade away.

Topics: Death, Burn Out

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Topics: Enemy, Truthful

The future of rock belongs to women.

Topics: Rocks

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

Topics: Waste, Wasting Time, Life Is, Waste Of Life, Drinking Party

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

Topics: Friendship, Happiness, Today

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

Topics: Eye, Soul, Saws

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

Topics: Tired, People, Sake

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

Topics: Years, Firsts, Seven

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

Topics: Mean, Beer, Ideas

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

Topics: Taken, Wish, Music Business

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

Topics: Flower, Cosy

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Tattoo, Love Me Or Hate Me, Singer-songwriters

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

Topics: People, Matter, No Matter What

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

Topics: Practice, Perfect, Perfection, Perfect Practice, Practice Makes Perfect

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.

Topics: Hate, Cds, Racist, Homophobes, If You Like Me

I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.

Topics: Mad, Mood

I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

source: - "Frances Bean Cobain pays tribute to dad Kurt on his birthday" by Andrea Park, www.cbsnews.com. February 20, 2017.

Topics: Passion, Remember, Suicide Note, Fade Away

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

source: - "Song: "Dumb" ("In Utero")". 1993.

Topics: I Can

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

source: - "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, November 2002.

Topics: Sad, Nature, Morning, Rockers, Birdsong

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

source: - "Cobain Book Shows Singer's Life 'Heavier' Than Most Imagined" by Archive -Teri-Vanhorn, www.mtv.com. September 01, 2001.

Topics: Flames, Bipolar, Musician

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

Topics: Stupid, Ashamed, Humans

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.

Topics: Bipolar, Life Is Like, Want

I will get stoned and worship Satan.

Topics: Worship, Satan

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

source: - "Song: "Dumb" ("In Utero")". 1993.

Topics: Love, Relationship, Moving On, Love Is Hard, Love Pain

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

Topics: Land, America, People, Land Of The Free, Ignorant People

Before I die many will die with me and they'll deserve it. See you in Hell.

Topics: Hell, Dies, Before I Die

All in all is all we are.

source: - "Song: All Apologies (In Utero)". September 21, 1993.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

source: - "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, 2002.

Topics: Being Positive, Important, Negative

If chasing cool is important to you, you're an idiot!

source: - Interview with Frank Andrick, www.artistwd.com.

Topics: Important, Idiot, Chasing

None of you will ever know what I am thinking.

Topics: Thinking, Knows

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

Topics: Appreciation, Passion, Sacred

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

source: - Rolling Stone Magazine, April 16, 1992.

Topics: Respect, Time, Memories, Drug Abuse

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.

Topics: Hope, Soul, Dying, Afraid Of Death, Becoming Someone

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

source: - "Cobain still an enigma / New song, diaries proof of his struggle with fame" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. November 17, 2002.

Topics: Fun, Mean, Passionate, Dork

Who needs action when you got words?

Topics: Needs, Action

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

Topics: People, Prejudice, Feels

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came.

source: - "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, 2002.

Topics: Tomorrow, Finest

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.

Topics: Thinking, Reality, Impact

You create attention to attract attention.

Topics: Attention, Truthful

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

Topics: People, Missing, Able

Don't read my diary when I'm gone.

source: - "Walk like a junkie". www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2005.

Topics: Diaries, Gone

Don't expect me to die for you.

Topics: Dies

I hate myself, and I want to die

Topics: Sad, Hate, Suicidal, Hate Myself, I Hate Myself

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

Topics: Sex, People, Drug, Having Sex, Live Music

In the sun I feel as one.

source: - "All Apologies". Song by Kurt Cobain, 1993.

Topics: Sun, Feels

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.

Topics: Children, Order, Appreciate, Suicide Note

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.

source: - "The Nevermind You've Never Heard" by Seth Colter Walls, www.slate.com. September 27, 2011.

Topics: Rocks, Records, Punk, Nevermind, Punk Rock

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

Topics: Firsts, Music Is

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

Topics: People, Want, Different

Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

source: - "Song: "Territorial Pissings" ("Nevermind")". 1991.

Topics: Mets, Adages, Ifs

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

Topics: Cry, Reason, Wrong Reasons

I’m worse at what I do best.

source: - Song: Smells Like Teen Spirit

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

Topics: Sports, Baseball, Team, Baseball Team, Rock N Roll Music

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.

Topics: Hate, Rocks, Blood, Tee Shirt

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Topics: People, Appearance, Reactions

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

source: - "Song: "Heart-Shaped Box" ("In Utero")". August 30, 1993.

Topics: Friendship, Forever, Advice

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.

Topics: Guitar, Shoes, Guy, Massive

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

Topics: Thinking, Rocks, Years

Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

Topics: Girl, School, Gay

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

source: - "Breed". Song by Kurt Cobain, 1991.

Topics: House, Tree, Plant

Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.

Topics: Suicide, Love You, Suicidal, Courtney, Suicide Note

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

Topics: Different, Band, Littles

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

Topics: Song, Half, Theme

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

source: - "Remembering Nirvana's Final Album 'In Utero'". www.npr.org. September 24, 2013.

Topics: Married, Yeah, Buried, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

You can't buy happiness

Topics: Happiness

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

source: - "Prose and cons" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

Topics: Diaries, Looks, Figures

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.

Topics: Creativity, Writing, Pieces, Notepads

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.

Topics: Thinking, Ideas, Want

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.

source: - "Popular music, gender, and postmodernism" by Neil Nehring, (p. 94), 1997.

Topics: Growing Up, Kids, Rocks, Punk Rock, Seventeen Years Old

Here we are now, entertain us.

source: - "Smells like Teen Spirit" (song) (1991)

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not.

Topics: Definitions, Catchy, You Like It

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.

source: - "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

Topics: Father, Blood, Want, Blood Relatives

I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.

Topics: Mother, Father, School

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Topics: Life, Wish, Complaining, Boring Life, Sitting Around

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

source: - "Song: "Very Ape" ("In Utero")". September 21, 1993.

Topics: Acting, Firsts, Busy

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.

Topics: Confused, Done, Truthful

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

Topics: Baseball, Loser, Cigarette

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.

source: - Interview with Frank Andrick, www.artistwd.com.

Topics: Song, Writing, Torn Apart

all i want...is mac and cheese

Topics: Want, Cheese, Macs

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Topics: Expression, Artistic

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

Topics: Truthful, Trendy

I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!

Topics: Tough, Damn, Time Of My Life, Best Time Of My Life

If you read, you'll judge.

source: - "Kurt Cobain's Journals: The Writer Behind The Rock Star". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. June 28, 2010.

Topics: Judging, Ifs

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.

Topics: Pain, Fighting, Years

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

source: - "Smashing Their Heads On The Punk Rock". Interview with Darcey Steinke, www.spin.com. October 1993.

Topics: Girl, World, Courtney

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.

Topics: Havens, I Can

I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually

Topics: People, Way, Feels, Respect People

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

Topics: Alternatives, Mainstream, Music Is, Alternative Music

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

Topics: Book, School, Judging

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

Topics: Hands, My Favorite, Lennon

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

Topics: Kids, Becoming, Lawyer, Sleazy

I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

Topics: Guitar, Years, Sound

I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.

Topics: Dream, Jobs, Stars

I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.

Topics: Gay, Wish, Homosexuality, Homophobes

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.

Topics: Stars, Stupid, Rocks, Stupid Ideas

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.

Topics: Girl, Real, Important

Zits are beauty marks.

source: - "Sassy" Magazine, April 1992.

Topics: Zits, Truthful, Mark

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.

Topics: Confused, People, Answers

I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.

Topics: Thinking, Smell, Someday

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.

source: - "Song: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ("Nevermind")". September 10, 1991.

Topics: Stupid, Light, Dangerous

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

source: - Interview with Frank Andrick, www.artistwd.com.

Topics: Song, People, Way

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

Topics: Book, Reading, Wells

Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

Topics: Dresses, Want, Matter, Wearing A Dress, Big Deal

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.

source: - Interview with Frank Andrick, www.artistwd.com.

Topics: Together, Sound, Knows

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

Topics: Contradiction, Bigs

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

Topics: Song, People, Radio

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

Topics: Hate, Cheesy, Wish

I'm on my time with everyone.

Topics: My Time

And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun

source: - "Come as you are". Song by Kurt Cobain, 1991.

Topics: Gun, Swear

I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

source: - "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

Topics: Jobs, One Day, Quitting

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

Topics: Guitar, Rooms

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Guitar, Play, Rhythm

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

Topics: Guitar, Guy, Endorsements, Dork

I don't want to be a spokesperson.

Topics: Want

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

source: - "Nirvana's Rise To Fame, In Their Own Words" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 18, 2011.

Topics: Stars, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Ringo

My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had

Topics: Song, Theme, Frustrating

There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.

Topics: Song, Pain, Writing

I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out.

source: - "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

Topics: Years, Names, Parent

I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.

Topics: Believe, Band, Scene

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.

Topics: Careers, Looks, Too Late, Before It's Too Late

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.

Topics: Baby, Guitar, Crowds, Jaguars

We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.

Topics: Guitar, Play, Long

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

source: - The Daily of the University of Washington Newspaper, May 5, 1989.

Topics: Rocks, Yugoslavia, Issues

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

Topics: Self, Miserable, Highlander, Rock Song, Famous Last Words

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Topics: Summer, Baby, Children, Ymca, Preschool

The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.

source: - "10 years ago today, Kurt Cobain took his life. What part of him lives on in music? In his fans? And then there's Courtney" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. April 5, 2004.

Topics: Fun, Thinking, People, Faking It

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.

Topics: Guitar, Two, Quality, Left Handed, Mustang

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.

Topics: Band

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

source: - "Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn't Suck". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 1994.

Topics: Song, Taken, Night, Every Night

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.

Topics: Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rose

I never listen to 'Nevermind.' I haven't listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

Topics: Nevermind, Havens

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

source: - "Pages From Kurt Cobain's 'Journals' Published" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2002.

Topics: Nymphs, Jam, Pearls, Pearl Jam

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

Topics: Band, Punk, Heard, Punk Music

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.

source: - "The NIRVANA Reader: 1988 - 1992". Book by John Luerssen, December 2008.

Topics: Hate, Oil, Drunk

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.

Topics: Past, Years, Burning, Suicide Note

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.

Topics: Cancer, Kids, Emotional, Infomercials

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Topics: Bisexual, Lifestyle, Found, Courtney

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

Topics: Hate, Cry, Nevermind

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

source: - "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, 2002.

Topics: Evaluation, Hell, Rate

I have very bad posture.

Topics: Posture

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

source: - Incesticide liner notes, 1992.

Topics: Knack, Firsts, Tricks

There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.

Topics: Song, Hate, Thinking, Pop Song, Black Sabbath

She eyes me like a pisces.

source: - "Song: 'Heart-Shaped Box'". 1993.

Topics: Eye, Pisces

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

Topics: Men, Good Man, Lips